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| author | Niklink <25875275+Niklink@users.noreply.github.com> | 2023-09-04 13:15:00 -0400 |
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| committer | Niklink <25875275+Niklink@users.noreply.github.com> | 2023-09-04 13:15:00 -0400 |
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review: commentary
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diff --git a/album/9.yaml b/album/9.yaml index 995c1e0..9896955 100644 --- a/album/9.yaml +++ b/album/9.yaml @@ -40,11 +40,18 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Cool and New Music Team:</i> 9 + (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0JVq5p3x9EidV4gshpgQ-1VtImRPTnhJ">Album trailers</a>) + <i>Discfortune:</i> (Rando) tldr everyone on our art team is amazing <i>nights:</i> (Cover Artist) - I drew the right half of this cover. Read oceanfalls + I drew the right half of this cover. Read [[group:oceanfalls|oceanfalls]] + + <i>Ngame:</i> + (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ0v2oxxpzM">Community listening stream w/ chat</a>) +--- +Section: Main album --- Track: 'Intro: I Turned My Daddy On' Artists: @@ -122,9 +129,9 @@ Lyrics: |- D-D-D-D-DO IT! Commentary: |- <i>Discfortune:</i> (Composer) - Okay so when I make songs I usually start out with a dumb gimmick and then I haphazardly flesh it out to an acceptable point (ex. with 72.0x SHOWDOWN COMBO it was the name, with Tick and Tock it was the songs being able to be layered and panned, and with Ringleader it was the time signature). Here I sort of started out with that--I was buying Dr. Pepper for a meme at the grocery store when an 11/8 tune came into my mind and I decided to run with it. It was pretty standard, and as usual I made progress rather slowly. The idea was to slowly build up time signatures to reflect the song building up in intensity and soundscape thickness (you might be able to pick out the song going from 11/8, to 12/8, to 13/4, to 14/8, to 4/4). Then later that week Cecily Renns gave a whole spiel on how people take too long to make songs for the sake of making them "the best ever" and that in order to improve we should be maximizing speed over quality to gain experience in retrospect. At first I said "okay that's a good idea maybe I'll do that" but then I thought to myself "no, f*** that, I'm going to do whatever the hell I want with this dumb song, it doesn't even need a gimmick". So I did that, and it took a long time, and it was a little bit tiring, but it was fun. I'll probably do this more often: just having fun. + Okay so when I make songs I usually start out with a dumb gimmick and then I haphazardly flesh it out to an acceptable point (ex. with 72.0x SHOWDOWN COMBO it was the name, with [[track:tick|Tick]] and [[track:tock|Tock]] it was the songs being able to be layered and panned, and with [[track:ringleader|Ringleader]] it was the time signature). Here I sort of started out with that--I was buying Dr. Pepper for a meme at the grocery store when an 11/8 tune came into my mind and I decided to run with it. It was pretty standard, and as usual I made progress rather slowly. The idea was to slowly build up time signatures to reflect the song building up in intensity and soundscape thickness (you might be able to pick out the song going from 11/8, to 12/8, to 13/4, to 14/8, to 4/4). Then later that week [[artist:cecily-renns|JohnJRenns]] gave a whole spiel on how people take too long to make songs for the sake of making them "the best ever" and that in order to improve we should be maximizing speed over quality to gain experience in retrospect. At first I said "okay that's a good idea maybe I'll do that" but then I thought to myself "no, f*** that, I'm going to do whatever the hell I want with this dumb song, it doesn't even need a gimmick". So I did that, and it took a long time, and it was a little bit tiring, but it was fun. I'll probably do this more often: just having fun. The song uses a lot of synths, which is relatively new to me. But it was interesting to get a little bit more room to work with, EQ-wise. Also, my motif spacing was really weird. There's this one section before the piano Aggrieve where I vomited out like 3 or 4 motifs because I realized I wasn't being canwc-relevant enough. Probably the hardest part of making the song was the length. In general, it's really hard for me to make anything longer than 2 minutes because I hate looping/repeating sections. - At the end of the day I guess the song was supposed to serve as the next in a long line of "songs that Crypt made to experiment with new genres"" but I think Spacetime Starstriker sounds too much like a more realized form of Light at the End of the Tunnel from Train Game. But hey, it got me to listen to more electronic music, which I almost never do outside of Homestuck. If I never release my solo album, imagine this as track three. Well, have fun with the rest of the album. It's probably our best one. Don't let Makin tell you otherwise. MEME + At the end of the day I guess the song was supposed to serve as the next in a long line of "songs that Crypt made to experiment with new genres"" but I think Spacetime Starstriker sounds too much like a more realized form of [[track:light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel|Light at the End of the Tunnel]] from [[album:call-and-new-2-locomotif|Train Game]]. But hey, it got me to listen to more electronic music, which I almost never do outside of Homestuck. If I never release my solo album, imagine this as track three. Well, have fun with the rest of the album. It's probably our best one. Don't let [[artist:makin|Makin]] tell you otherwise. MEME --- Track: Harlecoaster (Not Voul. 1 Mix) Artists: @@ -141,7 +148,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - RollerCoaster Tycoon Theme Commentary: |- <i>Commander Cello:</i> (Composer) - During June, I thought it would be funny if I gave the RCT melody to Harlequin, so I did. Then I later became a part of the canmt and thought, "hey, wouldn't this be a funny and relevant joke/song to have?" Then I checked around and found that there was a Vol. 1 song with the same general idea, but in a different, er, style. And that's how this song got made. + During June, I thought it would be funny if I gave the RCT melody to Harlequin, so I did. Then I later became a part of the canmt and thought, "hey, wouldn't this be a funny and relevant joke/song to have?" Then I checked around and found that there was a [[track:harlecoaster|Vol. 1 song]] with the same general idea, but in a different, er, style. And that's how this song got made. <i>Radical Dude 42:</i> (Artist) Wait, this was for canwc? whoops @@ -175,7 +182,7 @@ Sampled Tracks: - Your Bed Commentary: |- <i>SplitSuns:</i> (Composer) - Back in April, Gorillaz were getting ready to release their new album Humanz. With some coaxing from CaNMT members, I decided to create a mashup for the YouTube channel that would combine the Gorillaz track "Saturnz Barz" with the various trailer music we've heard so far in Hiveswap. Part of the song was set to go with a Hiveswap trailer as a SiivaGunner-esque bait and switch, and the whole song would be uploaded as a Gorillaz rip. While initially successful, the latter rip was actually striked off of the channel, and the former video was privated to avoid another strike. I later released in on my SoundCloud and am now releasing it on 9 so that you all can hear it once more! As for the song itself, I stuck true to Saturnz Barz' original structure and made sure the Hiveswap music went well with the stops and skips in the song. I also snuck some other Homestuck music in there to make the rip more dynamic. Enjoy! + Back in April, [[artist:gorillaz|Gorillaz]] were getting ready to release their new album Humanz. With some coaxing from CaNMT members, I decided to create a mashup for the YouTube channel that would combine the Gorillaz track "Saturnz Barz" with the various trailer music we've heard so far in Hiveswap. Part of the song was set to go with a Hiveswap trailer as a [[artist:silvagunner|SiivaGunner]]-esque bait and switch, and the whole song would be uploaded as a Gorillaz rip. While initially successful, the latter rip was actually striked off of the channel, and the former video was privated to avoid another strike. I later released in on my SoundCloud and am now releasing it on 9 so that you all can hear it once more! As for the song itself, I stuck true to Saturnz Barz' original structure and made sure the Hiveswap music went well with the stops and skips in the song. I also snuck some other Homestuck music in there to make the rip more dynamic. Enjoy! <i>SplitSuns:</i> (Artist) When Secretz Barz was originally uploaded onto the YouTube channel, it didn't have any special track art. For its release on my SoundCloud, I decided to give it some! I decided to go with a straight parody of the Humanz cover, replacing the members of Gorillaz with various characters from Hiveswap. I stuck with 3D models only to mirror the detailed 3D avatars of the Gorillaz' members on the Humanz cover, and I also tried to arrange the characters in ways that were reminiscent of the poses on the original cover. The end result is something I'm quite proud of. Also, just so we're clear, I made this more than a month before the existing cover to 9 was made, so any refrance is entirely coincidental. @@ -256,7 +263,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>VulkanShawl:</i> (Artist) you probably not noticed that i simply use an art when RCT is used in a song, also trap nation shit and SIX FLAGS. - <img src="media/misc/Simple-roller-coaster-clipart.jpg" width="150" height="150"> + <img src="media/misc/Simple-roller-coaster-clipart.jpg" width="150"> --- Track: Stabby Artists: @@ -374,7 +381,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:unintentional-touhou - track:penumbra-phantasm Commentary: |- - <i>Shadok:</i> (Composer) + <i>Shadok:</i> (Artist) i never played touhou aaaaa <i>Nicholas Nakano:</i> (Composer) @@ -832,7 +839,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Scarodactyl:</i> (Artist) Another nice Viridian track--he had some good starting ideas for the art as well. - <img src="media/misc/of-orchids-and-roses-beta.jpg" width="400" height=533 /> + <img src="media/misc/of-orchids-and-roses-beta.jpg" width="300"> I like how this one turned out. Special thanks to Xamag for drawing The Definitive Rose (You Know the One). --- @@ -1041,7 +1048,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Feel Good Inc. Commentary: |- <i>cookiefonster:</i> (Composer) - Don't let the name fool you, this song mostly exists because I wanted to do something with Dialup from Vol 8 which is a song I like way too much. I decided to do what I always do: make a chiptune thing combining it with other random songs, and slap the Moshi label on it for good measure. I think it turned out pretty well even though I'll probably never surpass that one song from my solo album that's on Greatest Hits. I'm not joking, Makin literally told me to make this more like that song. + Don't let the name fool you, this song mostly exists because I wanted to do something with Dialup from [[album:v8lume|Vol 8]] which is a song I like way too much. I decided to do what I always do: make a chiptune thing combining it with other random songs, and slap the Moshi label on it for good measure. I think it turned out pretty well even though I'll probably never surpass [[track:the-gemoni-mustard-blood|that one song]] from [[album:of-troles-and-chiptumes|my solo album]] that's on [[album:cool-and-new-greatest-hits|Greatest Hits]]. I'm not joking, [[artist:makin|Makin]] literally told me to make this more like that song. <i>Ephemerald:</i> (Artist) Bob drew the NES, the Nintendo-esque "Cool and New Music Team" logo at the bottom, and the CANMT-Tan Seal of Approval. He also sketched up a general outline for how the image would go, which I followed the best I could (while also putting my own take on it). His sketch for Moshi Moshi's boxart looked like Dr. Eggman lying down on a level of Super Mario Bros., so... that's what I drew. The quotes on the upper-left are also taken verbatim from the image outline, because I think they're perfect the way they are. The background with the fuchsia lines is actually an image from one of the endgame levels of FEZ. I included it because I thought it looked 80s, I guess. This entire image was meant to feel dated, like it was actually from thirty years ago, so I tried to reference some NES-era boxarts (like Mega Man 2) with how I wrote the text. Lastly, I added a sepia filter over the whole thing to sell the whole "thirty years ago" aesthetic. Bob, if you're reading this, I hope I did good. @@ -1107,7 +1114,7 @@ Sampled Tracks: - Redial Commentary: |- <i>Difarem:</i> (Composer) - I'm not really pleased with how this one turned out, especially the ending. It was originally concieved as a corresponding jungle for MrCheeze's Cool and New Countdown, from call and new. + I'm not really pleased with how this one turned out, especially the ending. It was originally concieved as a corresponding jungle for [[artist:mrcheeze|MrCheeze's]] [[track:cool-and-new-countdown|Cool and New Countdown]], from [[album:call-and-new|call and new]]. <i>groeuf:</i> (Artist) sounded like some mission impossible shit. idk ive got nothing @@ -1135,7 +1142,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:penumbra-phantasm Commentary: |- <i>TirantBacon:</i> (Composer) - I made this song as an attempt to somehow convey the character of Jaed into song form. Each section of the song represents a significant self-observed character trait of Jaed: Wacky, unfortunate and possibly psychotic. It's composition is reminiscent of Radiation's composition style (of course), but I tried to at least keep it my own style in the later half of the song. Although I might make an extended version in the future, perhaps with certain animal noises... Keep a look out for that! :D + I made this song as an attempt to somehow convey the character of Jaed into song form. Each section of the song represents a significant self-observed character trait of Jaed: Wacky, unfortunate and possibly psychotic. It's composition is reminiscent of [[group:toby-fox|Radiation's]] composition style (of course), but I tried to at least keep it my own style in the later half of the song. Although I might make an extended version in the future, perhaps with certain animal noises... Keep a look out for that! :D <i>Shadok:</i> (Artist) There was supposed to be no light effect after reading some reviews by judges i added cool and new effects @@ -1296,6 +1303,9 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Ephemerald:</i> (Artist) The original idea for this art was a mish-mash of a bunch of scenes from the "Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny" Flash animation made around a decade ago (you know the one) into one image, replacing the characters from the flash with the relevant characters from this song. I got as far as drawing Jhon staring at Lord Spanish/English before realizing that it would be way too cluttered and unnecessary, so instead Split and I searched through the entire animation to try and find a scene that we could use. I decided on copying a still where Mr. Rogers is shedding a single tear for all that fell in the majestic battle. Dabe isn't the victor of the "O"down (spoilers!), but since he's shown crying all the time in CANWC, I decided to draw him. (I also didn't feel like spoiling the ACTUAL victor.) And that's pretty much all there is to it. + + <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> (Singer) + Split asked me sing and I said yes so now I am a lord bow down to me --- Track: Moshi Moshi Moshi Moshi Moshi Moshi Moshi Moshi Moshi Artists: @@ -1450,7 +1460,7 @@ Commentary: |- life is pain <i>greenTetrahedron:</i> (Artist) - i just took the peanut from the original please kill me and used it as a brush and then added motion blur + i just took the peanut from the original [[track:please-kill-me|please kill me]] and used it as a brush and then added motion blur --- Track: Corrupted Collision Artists: @@ -1473,10 +1483,10 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Dance of Thorns Commentary: |- <i>sylvarn:</i> (Composer) - I started off trying to make a parody of OTS but using cookie's Rex Mille Geromius motif which is quite beautiful in itself. I then lost track and started making chaotic bullshit. I think it turned out well. (I haven't made a decent song since I made this, and it was 5 weeks ago, please help) + I started off trying to make a parody of [[track:oppa-toby-style|OTS]] but using [[artist:cookiefonster|cookie's]] Rex Mille Geromius motif which is quite beautiful in itself. I then lost track and started making chaotic bullshit. I think it turned out well. (I haven't made a decent song since I made this, and it was 5 weeks ago, please help) <i>Makin:</i> (Artist) - This was originally for The Souns of Justis, but someone forgot to mention they had already done art for it, so I moved the art to something with femora's elitemotif. I painstakingly composed "justice must be a serve" using the Wub Machine DAW (Digital Audio Wubstation). Too advanced for most people. Don't even look it up. + This was originally for [[track:the-souns-of-justis|The Souns of Justis]], but someone forgot to mention they had already done art for it, so I moved the art to something with femora's elitemotif. I painstakingly composed "justice must be a serve" using the Wub Machine DAW (Digital Audio Wubstation). Too advanced for most people. Don't even look it up. <i>sylvarn:</i> (Composer) what the fuck is an elitemotif @@ -1502,7 +1512,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:dr-pepper Commentary: |- <i>Squarewave:</i> (Composer) - So this started out as a boss battle remix, and then I mashed it with a few other songs. It got really long, and sort of repetitive, so Makin told me to cut it in half. I was going for a eurobeat feel, and keep it pretty pumped and good. It'd be cool to see it used in a quick boss fight flash or something + So this started out as a boss battle remix, and then I mashed it with a few other songs. It got really long, and sort of repetitive, so [[artist:makin|Makin]] told me to cut it in half. I was going for a eurobeat feel, and keep it pretty pumped and good. It'd be cool to see it used in a quick boss fight flash or something <i>Squarewave:</i> (Artist) European doctor pepper. Jpeg artifacts are intentional. @@ -1527,7 +1537,7 @@ Commentary: |- holy shit i finally wrote something original?! well not THAT original - for a while, the working title of this track was "unintentional toby". <i>Wights End:</i> (Artist) - dC said that he was invisioning a horde fight for this song, and the first horde that I thought of was the prospitian guards when Jef was escaping from jail and Jaed had just used her Red Miles. + [[artist:pipko-fanfare|dC]] said that she was invisioning a horde fight for this song, and the first horde that I thought of was the prospitian guards when Jef was escaping from jail and Jaed had just used her Red Miles. --- Track: Unite Synchronization (Revised Edition) Artists: @@ -1746,7 +1756,7 @@ Commentary: |- I had fun messing with synths and then suddenly sunsetter happened <i>XenoZane:</i> (Artist) - im not an artist but its fun to mess with some of gimp's default brushes. if that jhon looks good its because he was basically traced from the conclude art. + im not an artist but its fun to mess with some of gimp's default brushes. if that jhon looks good its because he was basically traced from the [[track:conclude|conclude]] art. --- Track: Fly Me To The Elevator Artists: @@ -1811,6 +1821,9 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Shadok:</i> (Artist) thxxx but they're not as cute as your songs! + + <i>Interrobang:</i> (Booklet Boy) + um. --- Track: Despoiled Dunes Artists: @@ -1830,7 +1843,7 @@ Commentary: |- I was learning about how arabic and other traditional eastern music varies from the modern western music that I'm so used to hearing. I decided to try and take what I was learning and apply it to a wanderers themed song. I never actually used any of what I learned other than how it's supposed to sound and what types of instruments are used. I wanted to use a legitimate Maqam (a word use for a type of eastern music scale) but they were so complex and had too many rules for me to keep track of, so I didn't bother. <i>Cloudaria:</i> (Artist) - i was like "hey, wanderers chiptune-y thing!!! cool!!!!" and made this. i also realized that i completely fucking forgot basically all the exiles in canwc, so i basically just threw wv, pm, and the big man because i remembered them existing at some point in time as exiles. enjoy. + i was like "hey, [[album:the-wanderers|wanderers]] chiptune-y thing!!! cool!!!!" and made this. i also realized that i completely fucking forgot basically all the exiles in canwc, so i basically just threw wv, pm, and the big man because i remembered them existing at some point in time as exiles. enjoy. --- Track: Creatrix Artists: @@ -1852,9 +1865,9 @@ Commentary: |- Song started out as an old 80s heavy bass dance track but then i realised it sounded much better with the light synth arps of Serum and Poizone. Then my friend, rumu11, created the art but that was rejected :jaedangry:. Overall, I think this is the most creative (get it?) song ive made so far. I might even rework this idea for a later song because it was so fun to work on. Anyway, hope you have a good day everyone <3 <i>Makin:</i> (Artist) - I had a vision of CANWC's future. It happened right after I searched "cool frog" on google. The original art was literally the letters "Creatrix" over a nondescript background, aka - boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo - ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo + I had a vision of CANWC's future. It happened right after I searched "cool frog" on google. The original art was literally the letters "Creatrix" over a nondescript background, aka<br> + boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo<br> + ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo<br> oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooring. --- Track: STRIPE!!!! @@ -1898,7 +1911,7 @@ Commentary: |- i like Toby, Toby is love, Toby is life (but no homo) <i>Makin:</i> (Artist) - <img src="media/misc/fat-husky-diagonal.png" width="144" height="234" /> + <img src="media/misc/fat-husky-diagonal.png" width="144"> --- Track: Break Battle Artists: @@ -1991,6 +2004,9 @@ Commentary: |- <i>NyashAlex:</i> (Artist) Everything featuring the word "beat" is automatically Strider-related. No exceptions. + + <i>Scarodactyl:</i> (Art Improver) + <img src="media/misc/cool-and-new-funky-beat-muscles.png" width="300"> --- Track: Momi (Piano) Artists: @@ -2104,7 +2120,7 @@ Sampled Tracks: - Beat 02 Commentary: |- <i>Wheals:</i> (Composer) - Ever since I heard the very well-made medley -3x piano solo in sound test 1, I wanted to make an arrangement that both had actual instrumentation and wasn't buried among the piles of rubbish on that album. Shwan was kind enough to give me a MIDI, which I sat on for 8 months before cranking this out. The theme (and meaning of the name) of -3x piano solo (and this song too) may not be immediately obvious -- it's songs that were used in the comic from Acts 1-4. I had fun adding four more songs to Shwan's reference list, none of which are in *Volumes* 1-4. + Ever since I heard the very well-made medley -3x piano solo in [[album:canwc-sound-test-1|sound test 1]], I wanted to make an arrangement that both had actual instrumentation and wasn't buried among the piles of rubbish on that album. [[artist:shwan|Shwan]] was kind enough to give me a MIDI, which I sat on for 8 months before cranking this out. The theme (and meaning of the name) of -3x piano solo (and this song too) may not be immediately obvious -- it's songs that were used in the comic from Acts 1-4. I had fun adding four more songs to Shwan's reference list, none of which are in [[album:homestuck-vol-1-4|*Volumes* 1-4]]. <i>cookiefonster:</i> (Artist) Wheals' idea for this art was to make CANWC versions of scenes in every flash each song plays in, so I painstakingly redrew (read: pasted together images and poorly retraced) 24 different scenes from Homestuck, except for a few flashes that had an exact CANWC equivalent where I just stole a screenshot from the flash. Even though I barely actually drew anything (I can't draw to save my life), I'm legitimately proud of this art. Making a Fresh Jimmy version of the FreshJamz logo has to be my best accomplishment yet. @@ -2193,7 +2209,7 @@ Sampled Tracks: Lyrics: |- (killing-killing Pikachu? kill-kill-Pikachu?) Commentary: |- - <i>Makin:</i> (Composer) + <i>Makin:</i> (Not Composer) give me a sec while I pull the cool video up. If you're not watching the stream this will make no sense to you. <i>Makin:</i> (Quantum Leaper) @@ -2201,6 +2217,13 @@ Commentary: |- <i>koykoy13:</i> (Artist) Star wanted me to make it as awful as I possibly can but then I made it a bit better than that featuring Dabe as a staircase + + <i>StarlightCalliope:</i> (Composer) + Dear god, where do I even start talking about this song? As I’m pretty darn sure you can tell based on both the title, theme, and general feel of the song, this song is intended to be a, “Descend-like,” medley for Cool and New Webcomic. It’s taken a long time to finish working on, (300 hours and work on it since January!!), but I am honestly really proud of how this song turned out. In the song, I referenced... about 44 different songs? Primarily songs released by this very Cool and New Music Team, with a decent bit of songs coming from the Homestuck Music Team, and one reference to a song from the, “[[album:weird-puzzle-tunes|Weird Puzzle Tunes]],” album. + + I think one of my favourite things about this, at least in terms of composing, was setting up specific musical ideas/motifs (and that’s the regular use of the term motif, not leitmotif/reference you fricks) and capitalizing on those ideas/motifs throughout the song. One of the most key ideas to the song as a whole, that’s rather integral to it feeling as fast as it does in certain sections, is the use of 32nd notes during portions using Synths. This is first set up during the Moshi Moshi section, and I used this repeatedly in the song both as a way to build tension and keep the listener engaged, and to add an extra bit of cohesivness to the piece as a whole. Repeating references/ideas is another method I used. Such as ending the song the same way it started, with this weird synthy thing from Final Fantasy 6 that has a bunch of delay on it playing a chord. I started the song using an E Minor chord using that thing, and ended the song on a big resolution using an E Major chord. Another example of this was through starting the song off using the same clocks that were used in [[track:cascante|Cascante]], and ending the song with those same clocks. (Albiet, it’s the end of the main part of the song, before the [[track:penumbra-phantasm|Penumbra]]-esque bit on the piano with the Horrorterror noises.) + + Honestly, this track is by and far the song that I’ve put the most effort into out of everything that I’ve tried to make thus far, and I really am proud of it. Although, I do feel like the mixing is a tad lacklustre and there’s literally no mastering. I suppose this shows that I probably should try to improve in terms of Production, though according to a decent portion of the team I am fairly good at Composition, as based on this piece. Really, I am happy with it, and I’m glad to have finally made a song for a main album, as this is my first time doing so. I really hope you folks enjoy the song as much as I enjoyed composing it! :) --- Track: Nakkin' Ned's Nice Naks Artists: @@ -2243,6 +2266,9 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Makin:</i> (Artist) nakin + + <i>Interrobang:</i> (Composer) + I actually made quite a few songs between [[album:v8lume|volumes 8]] and 9, but the ones that werent used in [[album:intermishin|Intermishin]] or [[album:jpeg|JPEG]] had the weird problem of getting onto [[album:lofam4|LOFAM]], and werent that CANWC related anyway, so I decided to just revoke them from this project. In their place, I wanted something that was firmly rooted in CANWC, and what bette than a song about everyone’s favorite Act 4 walkaround character, Nakkin’ Ned? Many of the parts of this song were taken from the Bassnectar remix of Beats Antique’s “Roustabout” (go listen to it), and many of the other elements were fittingly inspired by Genesis Frog’s “Buy NAK Sell DOOF”. Thanks to everyone who supplied me with naks (I had so many i didnt even have to record myself), and especially those who went above and beyond, namely [[artist:sylvarn|underscore’s]] UN Owen Was Her? naks and [[artist:cecily-renns|JohnJRenns’]] nak soundfont. Naknaknaknak! --- Section: Bonus Tracks --- diff --git a/album/bowmania.yaml b/album/bowmania.yaml index 5984bee..cf75f30 100644 --- a/album/bowmania.yaml +++ b/album/bowmania.yaml @@ -22,7 +22,16 @@ Groups: - Fandom Commentary: |- <i>Cool and New Music Team:</i> - a tribute to a [[artist:michael-guy-bowman|bowman]], who, even he himself, was once a bowboy + a tribute to a [[group:michael-guy-bowman|bowman]], who, even he himself, was once a bowboy + + <i>Hadron:</i> + (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_I5TYEmuXM">TRAILER - BOWMANIA</a>) + + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> + (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-gQDsSD8KI">Bowmania Reaction Livestream</a>) + + <i>Ngame:</i> + (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Ye4H8tADY">Community listening stream w/ chat</a>) --- Track: 'lore 2: the revengning' Artists: @@ -1667,6 +1676,7 @@ Lyrics: |- (OH GOD NO! NO! NOO! HELP ME! IT'S EVERYWHERE! YOU CAN REACH IN BETWEEN MY BUTTOCKS! HELP! BUTTOCKS! EIGHT--) --- Track: rennss_credit_score.mp2 +Directory: rennss-credit-score-mp2 Artists: - Cecily Renns Contributors: diff --git a/album/call-and-new-2-locomotif.yaml b/album/call-and-new-2-locomotif.yaml index 4422a9e..834e7ac 100644 --- a/album/call-and-new-2-locomotif.yaml +++ b/album/call-and-new-2-locomotif.yaml @@ -18,8 +18,11 @@ Groups: - Fandom Commentary: |- <i>Cool and New Music Team:</i> - Call and New™ 2: LOCOMOTIF ® is a non-linear branching album where the listener gets to decide which remix to listen to next. This album is best experienced using Youtube and its endcards. - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uIl7fmVnJI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uIl7fmVnJI</a> + Call and New™ 2: LOCOMOTIF ® is a non-linear branching album where the listener gets to decide which remix to listen to next. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uIl7fmVnJI">This album is best experienced using Youtube and its endcards.</a> + + (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmOWegNKKBM">ANNOUNCEMANT.</a>) +--- +Section: Main album --- Track: A new Station Artists: @@ -1235,6 +1238,7 @@ Commentary: |- 4:28 TRAIN by TRAIN --- Track: cool.mp3 +Directory: cool-mp3 Artists: - Difarem Has Cover Art: false diff --git a/album/c-a-n-w-a-v-e-2.yaml b/album/canwave-2.yaml index 7b92e01..e2ff9e6 100644 --- a/album/c-a-n-w-a-v-e-2.yaml +++ b/album/canwave-2.yaml @@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Cool and New Music Team:</i> In a dystopian (but not implausible) future, America has fallen to ruins under the tyrannical hand of President Donald J. Trump. Can Jhon save the country from further disaster, or will he perish in the attempt? --- +Section: Main album +--- Track: Intro Artists: - Aris Martinian @@ -95,6 +97,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/-DzaCuzDZGg --- Track: G A M E R E C L I P S E +Directory: gamer-eclipse Artists: - Interrobang Cover Artists: @@ -141,6 +144,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Alright! --- Track: F L A R E (Doomed Timeline Ver.) +Directory: flare-doomed-timeline-ver Artists: - artist:kobacat Cover Artists: @@ -158,6 +162,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/lomwI78aRAY --- Track: c o u r s e r w a v e +Directory: courserwave Artists: - cookiefonster Cover Artists: @@ -381,6 +386,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/qJkIwO0YeSY --- Track: T H I S S O N G L A S T S U N T I L 3 A M +Directory: this-song-lasts-until-3-am Artists: - loading Cover Artists: @@ -448,6 +454,7 @@ Lyrics: |- China all the time China --- Track: A N O T H E R J U N G L E +Directory: another-jungle-canwave Artists: - cookiefonster Cover Artists: @@ -535,6 +542,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/ZJ44uNkpZr0 --- Track: T H E M E (AKA Ballad for Penumbra Phantasm) +Directory: theme-aka-ballad-for-penumbra-phantasm Artists: - Aris Martinian Cover Artists: @@ -549,6 +557,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/OoZNBWXzBfk --- Track: X - V A P O R - N I G H T C O R E - R O M +Directory: x-vapor-nightcore-rom Artists: - Minish Cover Artists: @@ -680,6 +689,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/87_JJlcnpnY --- Track: S K A I A N S H U F F L E +Directory: skaian-shuffle-canwave Artists: - artist:kobacat Cover Artists: @@ -844,6 +854,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/VWqGy4JZjvE --- Track: S Q U 3 4 K +Directory: squ34k Artists: - TirantBacon Cover Artists: diff --git a/album/c-a-n-w-a-v-e.yaml b/album/canwave.yaml index fdca569..fdca569 100644 --- a/album/c-a-n-w-a-v-e.yaml +++ b/album/canwave.yaml diff --git a/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-2.yaml b/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-2.yaml index 30475d1..1e63e6d 100644 --- a/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-2.yaml +++ b/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-2.yaml @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: November 26, 2016 Date Added: August 17, 2023 URLs: - https://coolandnewwebcomic.bandcamp.com/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-2 -- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMXVVm-BDvr9dkjjKJMX-vEjPNKWuPiRx Cover Artists: - trip (Art) - Makin (text) @@ -46,6 +45,9 @@ Additional Files: Files: - canh2booklet.pdf Commentary: |- + <i>Cool and New Music Team:</i> + (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMXVVm-BDvr9dkjjKJMX-vEjPNKWuPiRx">Cool and New Homestuck 2 — video playlist rescoring Homestuck flashes</a>) + <i>Cecily Renns:</i> (Mastered the Album) This album is extremely great, but why its really brought to perfection is that a whole THREE songs reference We are Number One from LazyTown. This album is about Homestuck, i swear @@ -58,6 +60,12 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Interrobang:</i> (Commentator) Let it be known that I made the majority of this booklet while watching hit film <i>The Room</i> + + <i>Cool and New Music Team:</i> + (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wav1VaR5_pw">Cool and New Homestuck 2: Announcement</a>) + + <i>Ngame:</i> + (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLeV23B5gY0">Community listening stream w/ chat</a>) --- Section: Disk 2 Act 1 --- @@ -98,7 +106,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Cecily Renns:</i> (Composer) This song actually went through some multiple iterations(i never do that, lol), but basically this song is me fanboying over Homestuck Anthem, my favorite track in the HS discography, and trying to make a song that resembles it (it probably went well) - <i>Shadok</i> (Artist) + <i>Shadok:</i> (Artist) cookiefonster gave me this idea of "the alpha kids in rolling coasters" for another track except the spot was already taken, so i did it for this --- Track: mmmmmmmmidwife @@ -126,7 +134,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>cookiefonster:</i> (Commentator) You know what? This time around I'll volunteer and comment on stuff that doesn't have commentary like Bambosh did last time. I hope it'll be good - <i>Shadok</i> (Artist) + <i>Shadok:</i> (Artist) I drew the characters in the same style as my animations about “the baby is you” because memes Lyrics: |- The baby-- is a baby @@ -158,10 +166,10 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Koba:</i> (Composer) So i wanted to contribute to this album since i wasn't able to contribute to the first CANHS album, so at first i was being super ambitious song, then i forgot that i am bad at making decent sounding songs so i made a soundfont swap with a mess of pokemon stuff in it instead (i think it went well but to be perfectly fair it's literally just a soundfont swap with a 1 motif put in and one clip of a song roughly put in too) so i hope you enjoy it - <i>loading</i> (Commentator) + <i>loading:</i> (Commentator) Why do i even get commentary, I lost my song spot - <i>StarlightCalliope</i> (Artist) + <i>StarlightCalliope:</i> (Artist) Litten isn't the best starter of Gen 7. It's time to stop, Koba. It's final evolution isn't cool. Just... no. --- Section: Disk 2 Act 2 @@ -197,9 +205,11 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Cerulean:</i> (Composer) Made this song cus i love even in death, tried to get as far away from even in dance as i could while keeping somethings. Thats why i used the same synth for the lead, Massive. - <i>jakkyr</i> (Artist) - <span style="color: lightblue; font-family: comic sans ms, courier, courier new">Its "now this is a story" dunkass</span> - Here is a story all about how my life got flipped strait upside down, now let me take a moment sit right there and i'll tell you about the story where i have school for like 8 hours a day, following with me sleeping up to 14 hours at this point because my vitamin d is stabilizing slowly and the rest of the time i worked on this... or well i also used hours on playing warframe with a friend and then i also playd overwatch. and then i playd a lot of heroes of the storm for the oni genji skin and found out it was a good game so we kept playing. oh and then there was was the time we playd terraria a for like 2 days straight. but other then that i worked on this. its inspired from the even in death track art and reapers halloween highlight intro. tbh i'm not quite sure how i did most of this i just tried my way and it ended up looking nice. i'm still questioning how i got the skull how i got it but whatever i guess. *9 hours later* got a bunch of help from like my only irl artist friend because the styles didn't go together with what i made, but now i made it look like it fit together (the coffins + reaper rose with literally the rest of the art) ty lenny + <i>jakkyr:</i> (Artist) + Here is a story all about how my life got flipped strait upside down, now let me take a moment sit right there and i'll tell you about the story where i have school for like 8 hours a day, following with me sleeping up to 14 hours at this point because my vitamin d is stabilizing slowly and the rest of the time i worked on this... or well i also used hours on playing warframe with a friend and then i also playd overwatch. and then i playd a lot of heroes of the storm for the oni genji skin and found out it was a good game so we kept playing. oh and then there was was the time we playd terraria a for like 2 days straight. but other then that i worked on this. its inspired from the even in death track art and reapers halloween highlight intro. tbh i'm not quite sure how i did most of this i just tried my way and it ended up looking nice. i'm still questioning how i got the skull how i got it but whatever i guess. \*9 hours later* got a bunch of help from like my only irl artist friend because the styles didn't go together with what i made, but now i made it look like it fit together (the coffins + reaper rose with literally the rest of the art) ty lenny + + <i>Interrobang:</i> (Booklet maker) + <span style="color: cyan; font-family: comic sans ms, courier, courier new">Its "now this is a story" dunkass</span> --- Track: Thyme On My Fries Artists: @@ -231,15 +241,15 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:MeGaLoVania Commentary: |- <i>SplitSuns:</i> (Composer) - Wheals was gracious enough to let me work on this song, and I'm glad he did. Thyme on my Fries was a lot of fun to make from start to end. Putting in the Crazy Frog song (you know the one,) Extraterresterial, Waters of Nazareth, and all those standard Homestuck leitmotifs you know and love into a re-instrumentated-from-scratch package that I hope does the original justice was a treat. That “”guitar solo”” at the end was all improvised and I think it turned out pretty well. I knew I couldn't hope to match Tensei's skill so I just threw caution to the wind and hoped for the best. In the end, I'm satisfied with my first CANH song and I hope you all are too. + Wheals was gracious enough to let me work on this song, and I'm glad he did. Thyme on my Fries was a lot of fun to make from start to end. Putting in [[track:axel-f-crazy-frog|the Crazy Frog song]] (you know the one,) Extraterresterial, Waters of Nazareth, and all those standard Homestuck leitmotifs you know and love into a re-instrumentated-from-scratch package that I hope does the original justice was a treat. That “”guitar solo”” at the end was all improvised and I think it turned out pretty well. I knew I couldn't hope to match [[group:tensei|Tensei's]] skill so I just threw caution to the wind and hoped for the best. In the end, I'm satisfied with my first CANH song and I hope you all are too. <i>Wheals:</i> (Wheals) I named this! - <i>koykoy13</i> (Artist) + <i>koykoy13:</i> (Artist) Its literally thyme on fries - <i>trip</i> (Artist) + <i>trip:</i> (Artist) I dont know if you guys realized this but decapitation seems to be a thing with dirk. i thought the idea of dirk juggling a bunch of heads was kind of cool. thats about it --- Track: 'Jungle #3 (CaNH Edit)' @@ -259,9 +269,9 @@ Sampled Tracks: - track:jungle-3 Commentary: |- <i>cookiefonster:</i> (Composer) - Another Jungle is a criminally underrated song, which is why I'm glad I took it and ruined anyone else's chances at remixing it. As with cool and new Anthem, this is me fanboying over a song and making one that resembles it. It doesn't actually quote anything though which is pretty cool. + [[track:another-jungle|Another Jungle]] is a criminally underrated song, which is why I'm glad I took it and ruined anyone else's chances at remixing it. As with [[track:cool-and-new-anthem|cool and new Anthem]], this is me fanboying over a song and making one that resembles it. It doesn't actually quote anything though which is pretty cool. - <i>NyashAlex</i> (Artist) + <i>NyashAlex:</i> (Artist) This shot was taken on a beautiful friday sunset, because I felt like the sunset's lighting would blend well with the colors of the Condy's ship (but VSCOCam's preset sorta ate the colors, welp). Also, because I wanted to be done with this asap (that's why it wasn't taken on a saturday afternoon). --- Section: Disk 2 Act 3 @@ -449,7 +459,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>groeuf:</i> (Artist) So wait we're not using this version - <img src="media/misc/enter-with-caliborn-69.jpg" width="450" height="450"/> + <img src="media/misc/enter-with-caliborn-69.jpg" width="300"> --- Section: Disk 2 Act 4 --- @@ -485,10 +495,10 @@ Commentary: |- <i>cookiefonster:</i> (Composer) This was originally going to be a serious remix but making Windows XP sound bullshit turned out to be a lot more fun. But was it worth it? Only Makin knows.. - <i>trip</i> (Artist) + <i>trip:</i> (Artist) So i looked up “roller coaster” on google images and i found this unbelievably shitty wikihow image. it was a blessing from above and i knew then and there i had to make it cool and new. - <span style="color: lightblue; font-family: comic sans ms, courier, courier new">cool and old version of art</span> - <img src="media/misc/alphacoaster-xp-beta.jpg" width="450" height="450"/> + <span style="color: cyan; font-family: comic sans ms, courier, courier new">cool and old version of art</span> + <img src="media/misc/alphacoaster-xp-beta.jpg" width="300"> --- Section: Disk 2 Act 5 --- @@ -721,9 +731,9 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:harlequin Commentary: |- <i>Aris Martinian:</i> (Composer) - Ugh, Pipeorgankind. The tempo is nowhere near steady. I basically had to play bits and then line them up with each other, which I guess kind of fits how the original sounds? + Ugh, [[track:pipeorgankind|Pipeorgankind]]. The tempo is nowhere near steady. I basically had to play bits and then line them up with each other, which I guess kind of fits how the original sounds? - <i>william_</i> (Artist) + <i>william_:</i> (Artist) I actually had to PLAY rct2 - gasp! - in order to figure out what the ice cream shop looked like in that game. (i am dedicated to my craft!) i like to think that this is what the planet created by rose and hecka's SBURB session would look like, just a massive game of rollercoaster tycoon - though without typheus' lair being there, of course. --- Track: Hell"o" Kermit @@ -751,13 +761,13 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:im-a-member-of-the-midnight-crew Commentary: |- <i>Starlight Calliope:</i> (Composer) - Originally, [[artist:makin]] had signed up to do this song for CANH. At around early-mid October he offered up the spot, and I took it. I played around with several ideas, including remixing Hello Zepp in a polka style similar to Reveilleawesome from CANH 1, before finally settling on the idea of using Hello Zepp, and adding in relevant motifs to the Flash animation, in my normal song style. The whole Kermit the Frog thing is a reference to the Cheerfulbear Muppet Babies comics that, at least as far as I know, was the origin of the references to Saw seen in Homestuck. I feel like the song could have been better polished, but it's nice to finally have completed a song for this team and get to see it released + Originally, [[artist:makin]] had signed up to do this song for CANH. At around early-mid October he offered up the spot, and I took it. I played around with several ideas, including remixing Hello Zepp in a polka style similar to [[track:reveilleawesome-sad-polka-mix-with-gong-no-vocals|Reveilleawesome]] from [[album:cool-and-new-homestuck|CANH 1]], before finally settling on the idea of using Hello Zepp, and adding in relevant motifs to the Flash animation, in my normal song style. The whole Kermit the Frog thing is a reference to the Cheerfulbear Muppet Babies comics that, at least as far as I know, was the origin of the references to Saw seen in Homestuck. I feel like the song could have been better polished, but it's nice to finally have completed a song for this team and get to see it released <i>bobthetacocat:</i> (Artist) - I originally claimed this track art even before CANHS1 was released, knowing what i would do for the track art right then and there, which was to make a “conspiracy theory-esque” track art about how Hussie is actually Toby “Makingporing” Fox aka the one we know as o. While it didn't turn out the way I expected, (I wanted to include a lot more reddit post theories, but there wasn't enough. Get cracking, theorists.) I'd say it turned out 'alright.' I wouldn't call it my best work, but it does the job. Not like anyone's going to look at the art anyway wonk + I originally claimed this track art even before [[album:cool-and-new-homestuck|CANHS1]] was released, knowing what i would do for the track art right then and there, which was to make a “conspiracy theory-esque” track art about how Hussie is actually Toby “[[artist:makin|Makingporing]]” Fox aka the one we know as [[artist:o|o]]. While it didn't turn out the way I expected, (I wanted to include a lot more reddit post theories, but there wasn't enough. Get cracking, theorists.) I'd say it turned out 'alright.' I wouldn't call it my best work, but it does the job. Not like anyone's going to look at the art anyway wonk <i>cookiefonster:</i> (Commentator) - The track art doesn't have my ellipsis-based proof that Hussie isn't o :jaedangery: + The track art doesn't have my ellipsis-based proof that Hussie isn't [[artist:o|o]] :jaedangery: Lyrics: |- Hello, Kermit the frog here Hello, Kermit the frog here @@ -1183,7 +1193,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Oppa Toby Style Commentary: |- <i>cookiefonster:</i> (Composer) - I couldn't resist making the first half of my song for Jane: Enter into a full length thing, and decided this was the best place to put it, so this wouldn't be needlessly released before or after the CANH flash. I'm sorry for this being our Penumbra Phantas—oh wait who am I kidding it was worth inadvertently trolling you guys all the goddamn way. + I couldn't resist making the first half of my song for Jane: Enter into a full length thing, and decided this was the best place to put it, so this wouldn't be needlessly released before or after the CANH flash. I'm sorry for this being our [[track:penumbra-phantasm|Penumbra Phantas]]—oh wait who am I kidding it was worth inadvertently trolling you guys all the goddamn way. <i>Shadok:</i> (Artist) The first version looked too much like the original and people wanted me to make it more shitty so there diff --git a/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-3.yaml b/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-3.yaml index f4b78d0..bcd7845 100644 --- a/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-3.yaml +++ b/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-3.yaml @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: December 26, 2016 Date Added: August 17, 2023 URLs: - https://coolandnewwebcomic.bandcamp.com/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-3 -- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMXVVm-BDvr8Ep_NQsymrjwYOD5eSVlh8 Cover Artists: - Makin Art Tags: @@ -36,9 +35,12 @@ Additional Files: Files: - canh3act7booklet.pdf Commentary: |- + <i>Cool and New Music Team:</i> + (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMXVVm-BDvr8Ep_NQsymrjwYOD5eSVlh8">Cool and New Homestuck 3 — video playlist rescoring Homestuck flashes</a>) + <i>william_:</i> (Bonus Art Contributor) "No Drama" CANMT-tan: - <img src="media/misc/canmt-tan.png" width="350px" height="350px" /> + <img src="media/misc/canmt-tan.png" width="350px"> --- Track: Spoopy Piano o-o; Artists: @@ -57,7 +59,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/KGuxvBcXstI Commentary: |- <i>bobthetacocat:</i> (Composer) - After I started my Gaster's theme rip, (which you can find on the Cool And New Music Team Youtube Channel, I decideed to include Showtime (Piano Refrain) into the mix (which I later removed to not repeat the joke.) After I exported what I had at the moment and put the track in the Discord chat, OpsCat pointed out that Showtime worked well in the mix, and that Showtime Piano Refrain wasn't taken for CANHS3. I realized this was my time to shine. + After I started my Gaster's theme rip, (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxFBwHv6ljk">which you can find on the Cool And New Music Team Youtube Channel</a>, I decideed to include Showtime (Piano Refrain) into the mix (which I later removed to not repeat the joke.) After I exported what I had at the moment and put the track in the Discord chat, [[artist:wights-end|OpsCat]] pointed out that Showtime worked well in the mix, and that Showtime Piano Refrain wasn't taken for CANHS3. I realized this was my time to shine. And by 'time to shine' I mean 'time to shove memes into a midi and then put it through the Gaster piano, and also add the rct theme at the end because I could.' Apparently I count as a composer now, so that's cool (and new), I guess. @@ -83,7 +85,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Jungle Boogie Commentary: |- <i>cookiefonster:</i> (Composer) - I just adapted an old mashup Felix made because I thought it would be fitting for Sburb's loading screen. That's all. + I just adapted an old mashup [[artist:kobacat|Felix]] made because I thought it would be fitting for Sburb's loading screen. That's all. <i>Koba:</i> (Artist) Hi I helped I guess. @@ -130,11 +132,11 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:showtime-imp-strife-mix Commentary: |- <i>meems:</i> (Composer) - As I was looking through the possible flashes to work on, nothing struck me with more joy than JOHN THIS IS NO TIME FOR SLUMBER. Right when I heard that first group of violins come in in the original song, it was at that point, I knew. I had to do my work. It was a sunny September day. There was a humid summer air, yet, it felt as if the end of the unbearable heat was in sight. I opened up my DAW of choice, and knew what had to be done. As the song came together, there was only one thing that I could think of that would make this song great. Little did I know that this choice would have immediate repercussions on this song. As I placed the GM Trumpet onto the pattern, my heart sank. However, this sinking wasn't because of sadness, it was because of great joy. I had created a masterpiece. This masterpiece, however, had to be handled masterfully. There was only one thing that I could do: A sprite replacement. The following is a screenshot of the commentary spreadsheet, where a heated 'discussion' took place on this track. I have decided preserve its original format in the spirits of both preservations and compactness.As I opened up Flash, and replaced all of the sprites with our favorite protagonist, the work only got better from there. I replaced the audio, and moved the cursor over to the "Preview" button. Did I want to click it? Did I want to find out what would happen if I pressed that button. Yes. Yes I did. I clicked play. My jaw dropped. It was as if I was in a pit of crocodiles, dauntlessly staring death into the eyes, and proceeding to say "fuck you", as this magnificent savior rescues me. Tears were streaming down my face. Emotions were being tampered with. It was a work of gods. I exported my masterpiece, and from then on, the world was never the same. + As I was looking through the possible flashes to work on, nothing struck me with more joy than [[flash:397|JOHN THIS IS NO TIME FOR SLUMBER]]. Right when I heard that first group of violins come in in the original song, it was at that point, I knew. I had to do my work. It was a sunny September day. There was a humid summer air, yet, it felt as if the end of the unbearable heat was in sight. I opened up my DAW of choice, and knew what had to be done. As the song came together, there was only one thing that I could think of that would make this song great. Little did I know that this choice would have immediate repercussions on this song. As I placed the GM Trumpet onto the pattern, my heart sank. However, this sinking wasn't because of sadness, it was because of great joy. I had created a masterpiece. This masterpiece, however, had to be handled masterfully. There was only one thing that I could do: A sprite replacement. The following is a screenshot of the commentary spreadsheet, where a heated 'discussion' took place on this track. I have decided preserve its original format in the spirits of both preservations and compactness.As I opened up Flash, and replaced all of the sprites with our favorite protagonist, the work only got better from there. I replaced the audio, and moved the cursor over to the "Preview" button. Did I want to click it? Did I want to find out what would happen if I pressed that button. Yes. Yes I did. I clicked play. My jaw dropped. It was as if I was in a pit of crocodiles, dauntlessly staring death into the eyes, and proceeding to say "fuck you", as this magnificent savior rescues me. Tears were streaming down my face. Emotions were being tampered with. It was a work of gods. I exported my masterpiece, and from then on, the world was never the same. <i>Interrobang:</i> (Compiler) The following is a screenshot of the commentary spreadsheet, where a heated 'discussion' took place on this track. I have decided preserve its original format in the spirits of both preservations and compactness - <img src="media/misc/jhon-play-us-a-ditty.jpg" width="450" height="117" /> + <img src="media/misc/jhon-play-us-a-ditty.jpg" width="450"> <i>Makin:</i> (Missing the point) It's my dishonorable duty to transcribe the commentary in the image above against all possible spirits. @@ -180,7 +182,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Wheals:</i> (Composer) "What's the deal with all those songs that start with ""Skaian"" or end with ""of Skaia""??? - Like my later song on the album, this was me messing around on my piano, but making a more serious thingie. Doing CANHS in a more serious manner (all my other ones have been jokes) is a funny thing; you have to make a song that fits the feel of the flash while avoiding replicating the original song. I got a boost here by not being the first person to replace the music on this flash; Radiation did it when Bolin left, and I still prefer the original, which is why the opening is a riff on his opening. I went for a much softer approach than Toby's harsh synths/strings for the second half, too. + Like my later song on the album, this was me messing around on my piano, but making a more serious thingie. Doing CANHS in a more serious manner (all my other ones have been jokes) is a funny thing; you have to make a song that fits the feel of the flash while avoiding replicating the original song. I got a boost here by not being the first person to replace the music on this flash; [[group:toby-fox|Radiation]] did it when [[artist:bill-bolin|Bolin]] left, and I still prefer the original, which is why the opening is a riff on his opening. I went for a much softer approach than Toby's harsh synths/strings for the second half, too. Formation is an underrated motif, even if my transcription is rather imperfect. <i>nights:</i> (Artist) @@ -259,7 +261,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:umbrella-tomato Commentary: |- <i>413:</i> (Composer) - Harleband 1 had to have been the greatest and most beloved song of the [S] CaNH Disk 1 Discography, and as such it was my duty to reinovate it from the ground up to deliver a quality sequal... not the sequal this world begged me to not make, but the sequal I made despite the flipant ironic remarks as to how terrible it was. + Harleband 1 had to have been the greatest and most beloved song of the [[album:cool-and-new-homestuck|[S] CaNH Disk 1 Discography]], and as such it was my duty to reinovate it from the ground up to deliver a quality sequal... not the sequal this world begged me to not make, but the sequal I made despite the flipant ironic remarks as to how terrible it was. <i>Shadok:</i> (Artist) Inspired by [[track:harleband|this masterpiece]]: <a href="https://coolandnewwebcomic.bandcamp.com/track/harleband">https://coolandnewwebcomic.bandcamp.com/track/harleband</a> @@ -285,7 +287,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Shadok:</i> (Artist) Just a screenshot from this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9A21SLVMwI - <img src="media/misc/video-unavailable.jpg" width="350" height="235" /> + <img src="media/misc/video-unavailable.jpg" width="350"> --- Track: Unbreakable Unity Artists: @@ -340,7 +342,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Hallowed Halls Commentary: |- <i>SplitSuns:</i> (Composer) - My goal with this song was to take the original and see how many leitmotifs I could stuff it with. They're designed to match up with the cloud visions Jade experiences in the accompanying Flash. Well, except for that one part where RCT plays. For the last few seconds I came up with my own chord progression that, looking back on it, sounds kind of like Falling Down. Disclaimer: any resemblances to other video games are completely coincidental. + My goal with this song was to take the original and see how many leitmotifs I could stuff it with. They're designed to match up with the cloud visions Jade experiences in [[flash:1073|the accompanying Flash]]. Well, except for that one part where RCT plays. For the last few seconds I came up with my own chord progression that, looking back on it, sounds kind of like Falling Down. Disclaimer: any resemblances to other video games are completely coincidental. <i>Ephemerald:</i> (Artist) I liked the imagery of the Skaian clouds, and although this scene isn't in the actual Flash this song is based off of, I thought it felt appropriate. It was a pain in the ass removing all the stardust clogs from that panel (the actual one is super glitchy) but I'm proud of the effect. @@ -415,13 +417,13 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Courser Commentary: |- <i>cookiefonster:</i> (Interloper) - If this song had Snow Halation in it, it wouldn't be the worst song on the soundtrack anymore. + If this song had [[track:snow-halation|Snow Halation]] in it, it wouldn't be the worst song on the soundtrack anymore. <i>StarlightCalliope:</i> (Composer) - Cookie, please, we all know that We Are Number One is a vastly superior Siiva meme to Snow Halation. Snow Halation would make this the worstest song on the soundtrack. Anyways, I'll start talking about the song itself. Originally, I was inspired by how one Homestuck Musician, (if I recall correctly it was Jit,) said that he felt like Crystalanthemums was going to be Jade's Land Theme. As this was to be a remix for Jade's Land reveal, my original starting concept was, "Frost but with Crystalanthemums." I had started a version of this concept back before CANH2 had even been released, although I mostly reworked this old version from the ground up. The only thing that really remained unchanged was the Violin Arpeggio. I had planned to use Frog Forager as a continuation melody to Crystalanthemums at this time, but that melody didn't quite seem to fit the song, and I instead replaced it with a change to the Drum Beat at that point (said drum beat pretty heavily inspired/referencing Crystamanthequins or whatever the name was for the one in [S] Make Her Pay. One part of this song I am overall dissatisfied with is the Cymbals that come in near the end of the portion referencing Courser. I originally had a version where I had arranged the Cymbals in a manner where I was happy with them, but this version was poorly mastered and I was too lazy to transcribe what I had done for the old version. Anyways, I feel like this song was very much useful in helping me figure out how to better arrange orchestral percussion lines and to not make them completely uninteresting. + Cookie, please, we all know that [[track:we-are-number-one|We Are Number One]] is a vastly superior [[artist:silvagunner|Siiva]] meme to Snow Halation. Snow Halation would make this the worstest song on the soundtrack. Anyways, I'll start talking about the song itself. Originally, I was inspired by how one Homestuck Musician, (if I recall correctly it was [[artist:erik-scheele|Jit]],) said that he felt like Crystalanthemums was going to be Jade's Land Theme. As this was to be a remix for Jade's Land reveal, my original starting concept was, "Frost but with Crystalanthemums." I had started a version of this concept back before [[album:cool-and-new-volume-2|CANH2]] had even been released, although I mostly reworked this old version from the ground up. The only thing that really remained unchanged was the Violin Arpeggio. I had planned to use [[track:frog-forager|Frog Forager]] as a continuation melody to Crystalanthemums at this time, but that melody didn't quite seem to fit the song, and I instead replaced it with a change to the Drum Beat at that point (said drum beat pretty heavily inspired/referencing Crystamanthequins or whatever the name was for the one in [[flash:2578|[S] Make Her Pay]]. One part of this song I am overall dissatisfied with is the Cymbals that come in near the end of the portion referencing Courser. I originally had a version where I had arranged the Cymbals in a manner where I was happy with them, but this version was poorly mastered and I was too lazy to transcribe what I had done for the old version. Anyways, I feel like this song was very much useful in helping me figure out how to better arrange orchestral percussion lines and to not make them completely uninteresting. <i>koykoy13:</i> (Artist) - <img src="media/misc/pic-of-koykoy13-message.jpg" width="400" height="75" /> + <img src="media/misc/pic-of-koykoy13-message.jpg" width="400"> --- Track: Sunslammer is my music waifu Artists: @@ -500,7 +502,7 @@ Sampled Tracks: - Tock Commentary: |- <i>cookiefonster:</i> (Composer) - For this one I adapted my countdown arrangement of Jungle #3 to sync with this flash, and I think I put it to pretty good use. Just as Act 1 ends with a countdown version of Sburban Jungle, cool and new Act 6 Act 1 ends with a countdown version of Jungle #3. Better yet it replaces literally just windy sound effects. + For this one I adapted my countdown arrangement of Jungle #3 to sync with this flash, and I think I put it to pretty good use. Just as Act 1 ends with a [[track:sburban-countdown|countdown version of Sburban Jungle]], cool and new Act 6 Act 1 ends with a countdown version of Jungle #3. Better yet it replaces literally just windy sound effects. <i>Shadok:</i> (Artist) The bad thing is the explosion you nutshack @@ -579,7 +581,7 @@ Commentary: |- We need more songs like this <i>MrCheeze:</i> (Exile) - Puts Garden of Eden to shame tbh + Puts [[track:garden-of-eden-part-1|Garden of Eden]] to shame tbh <i>cookiefonster:</i> (Artist) I hope cookie appreciates this track art, i put a fuck ton of work into it @@ -605,7 +607,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Shadok:</i> (Artist) justascreenshotfromthis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G38hwkte5u4 - <img src="media/misc/video-unavailable.jpg" width="350px" height="150px" /> + <img src="media/misc/video-unavailable.jpg" width="350px"> --- Track: Moody Nigra Shit Artists: @@ -830,7 +832,7 @@ Commentary: |- When I got my electric keyboard a few months ago, I wondered "what am I going to do with the dual voice functionality and the split voice functionality and the auto-harmony functionality and all these instruments like 'horse'??" Well, now I know. I managed to nail this in the first take, though I planned out what instruments I'd be using ahead of time. <i>Ephemerald:</i> (Artist) - Act 6 Act 6 Act 5 is one of my favorite flashes in the comic solely because of its comedic value, so I wanted to do the song justice with my artwork. And what better way to do that than by including some PURE ART SKILL? I know that that pose shows up in A6A6A4 (and later in A7), and not in this act, but the opportunity was too good for me to pass up. I used the actual PURE ART SKILLS as reference for Caliborn's body, added some lasers and gradients for effects, and it was good to go. But there was something missing. Something that the art so desperately needed. What I'd created, I came to realize, wasn't actually art at all. Like Cool and New Webcomic, it was a shaker of boundaries - a metastasizing amalgam of memes that toppled the boundaries between shitposts and reality. This didn't involve PURE ART SKILL at all, I realized. It was PURE "O" SKILL. + [[flash:7409|Act 6 Act 6 Act 5]] is one of my favorite flashes in the comic solely because of its comedic value, so I wanted to do the song justice with my artwork. And what better way to do that than by including some PURE ART SKILL? I know that that pose shows up in A6A6A4 (and later in A7), and not in this act, but the opportunity was too good for me to pass up. I used the actual PURE ART SKILLS as reference for Caliborn's body, added some lasers and gradients for effects, and it was good to go. But there was something missing. Something that the art so desperately needed. What I'd created, I came to realize, wasn't actually art at all. Like Cool and New Webcomic, it was a shaker of boundaries - a metastasizing amalgam of memes that toppled the boundaries between shitposts and reality. This didn't involve PURE ART SKILL at all, I realized. It was PURE "O" SKILL. <i>Wheals:</i> (Composer) Once again my music got far better art than it deserved @@ -879,7 +881,7 @@ Lyrics: |- I'm incredibly turned on right now Commentary: |- <i>GoomFloops:</i> (Composer) - Wow, how relevant! How new! This song represents the empty joy that comes from memes + Wow, [[track:radiation-is-now-on-youtube|how relevant! How new!]] This song represents the empty joy that comes from memes <i>Shadok:</i> (Artist) I was going to animate this but meh this is better @@ -997,7 +999,7 @@ Commentary: |- Fun fact: originally I accidentally made this part twice as long as it should have been. Whoops! At least we all figured it out before this thing was put together. Anyways, this part of the song ended up sounding pretty spacey and epic, and to me at least, not unlike something C418 would compose. Go check him out, he made the music for Minecraft and is a pretty cool guy. <i>Minish:</i> (Composer, 1:02-1:26) - First music I've contributed to the team since Volume 2, actually. I took a break from the team because I couldn't do anything original and lacked the proper motivation to work on the CANMT. I hope to come back to it one day, but no promises. Also, the original version I produced is absolute garbage, Hadron deserves any and all praise. + First music I've contributed to the team since [[album:cool-and-new-volume-2|Volume 2]], actually. I took a break from the team because I couldn't do anything original and lacked the proper motivation to work on the CANMT. I hope to come back to it one day, but no promises. Also, the original version I produced is absolute garbage, Hadron deserves any and all praise. <i>Hadron:</i> (Composer, 1:02-1:56) Hey this is hadron and I'm cool like sunglass emoticon. @@ -1006,7 +1008,7 @@ Commentary: |- Fun fact 2x combo: I didn't actually make this song for act7 originally. Regardless of that, it was a pleasure to make this song for any productive work, and to have hadron remake it in his own style. This song was made without any real acquired inspiration from other songs, which believe it or not is what I typically don't do when I make music. I really like the way I arranged the song, and how it sorta shifts into a piratey theme towards the second half in the full version (I'm not sure if that makes it into the overall act 7 theme). <i>Wheals:</i> (Composer, 2:12-2:35) - CRASH. I had a lot of fun with this, my first time trying anything orchestral, and it's probably the best thing I've made so far. For a little extra fun I made it entirely with one sample pack that I had just gotten. Unfortunately I scrapped my original plan to use Voidlight in this section, so the song has still never been referenced. + CRASH. I had a lot of fun with this, my first time trying anything orchestral, and it's probably the best thing I've made so far. For a little extra fun I made it entirely with one sample pack that I had just gotten. Unfortunately I scrapped my original plan to use [[track:voidlight|Voidlight]] in this section, so the song has still never been referenced. <i>WHATSISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> (Composer, 2:35-3:21) SUDDENLY, THE LONGEST PART WRITTEN BY ONE PERSON COMES. This section was made in the span of about 2 days, after the people originally slotted in for this section bailed/didn't finish/were rejected. I think it kind of shows? Still, even if I'm not entirely happy with my piece for this collaboration, it at least blends well with the next section. (Fun fact, originally, the second half of this was just snow halation layered over the original audio. Sadly, that was rejected, but I kept its memory alive with a snow halation piano arrangement instead.) @@ -1088,10 +1090,10 @@ Referenced Tracks: - RollerCoaster Tycoon Theme URLs: - https://coolandnewwebcomic.bandcamp.com/track/revisit-rewind -# TODO: reupload both this and Resend to youtube individually +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVdkqgf9D90 Commentary: |- <i>Aris Martinian:</i> (Composer) - I was going to make it better but my computer's shit and logic broke, so I lost half the project file. Makin wanted me to remake it but I'm lazy. Sorry about the lack of panning and the bad drums. + I was going to make it better but my computer's shit and logic broke, so I lost half the project file. [[artist:makin|Makin]] wanted me to remake it but I'm lazy. Sorry about the lack of panning and the bad drums. <i>nights:</i> (Artist) I drew this with 3 babies in my lap please enjoy it @@ -1109,6 +1111,7 @@ Art Tags: Duration: '04:48' URLs: - https://coolandnewwebcomic.bandcamp.com/track/resend +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6DicaC5kw8 Referenced Tracks: - Cascade (Beta) - Crystalanthemums @@ -1122,4 +1125,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:endless-climb Commentary: |- <i>Noisemaker:</i> (Composer) - I initially made this as a submission for credits about a month before the deadline, and proceeded to not finish it until 45 minutes before the deadline, hence the uncompleted song (seriously its like 3 minutes shorter than [S] Credits is), but hey everything worked out in the end :^) \ No newline at end of file + I initially made this as a submission for credits about a month before the deadline, and proceeded to not finish it until 45 minutes before the deadline, hence the uncompleted song (seriously its like 3 minutes shorter than [[flash:8130|[S] Credits]] is), but hey everything worked out in the end :^) + + <i>Interrobang:</i> (Booklet Maker) + Glad to be done with these tbh (for now at least) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/album/cool-and-new-sonic-team.yaml b/album/cool-and-new-sonic-team.yaml index 8c46794..dfc8e18 100644 --- a/album/cool-and-new-sonic-team.yaml +++ b/album/cool-and-new-sonic-team.yaml @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Banner File Extension: png Wallpaper Artists: - Hadron Wallpaper File Extension: png -Wallpaper Style: 'opacity: 0.95;' +Wallpaper Style: 'opacity: 0.9;' Color: '#5178dd' Groups: - Cool and New Music Team @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Commentary: |- MY BLUE BOY SONIC SO NOW we are cool and new sonic team, the only sonic team ever - all made by hadron, all of it except for like one piece of art that was remixed by me that was originally done by scarodactyl, thanks muscle man + all made by hadron, all of it except for like one piece of art that was remixed by me that was originally done by [[artist:scarodactyl|scarodactyl]], thanks muscle man --- Track: Cosmic Eternity (Opening) Duration: '00:53' @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ URLs: Lyrics: |- SE-GA --- -Track: (Extra) Green Hill Zonewave +Track: Green Hill Zonewave Duration: '01:20' Cover Artists: - Hadron diff --git a/album/intermishin.yaml b/album/intermishin.yaml index c9816fa..9b65235 100644 --- a/album/intermishin.yaml +++ b/album/intermishin.yaml @@ -34,7 +34,12 @@ Additional Files: - intermishinbooklet.pdf Commentary: |- <i>Ephemerald:</i> (Cover Artist) - This is by far the most complicated piece of art I've done for the team yet. Since the album itself is split into two halves about both the Felt and Midnight Crew, I wanted both parties to have equal representation on the cover. (I was planning on having Vrasky/Snowman included, but it was really hard to find space for her - everyone's super close together as is! So I settled on having her hat/horns resting on the piano.) An idea quickly sprang forth - the entire Felt, staring in horror at the shitty Midnight Crew. The Midnight Crew's poses and positions in this cover mimic how they looked on Drawing Dead (plus blush on the cheeks!). Since I've had a couple people ask - none of this is ripped from Homestuck. I drew all of it myself! I did use a ton of reference though, from the aforementioned album cover and images on the wiki. The background is based off of the Felt Manor's first appearance in the CANWC intermission. All the colors are adapted from The Inaugural Death of Mister Seven. Originally, the entire Felt was supposed to be monochromatic, but after some people told me to change up the color scheme, I realized that this effect made everything kinda pop, and look a lot more unique. I'm really proud of this piece! I hope you enjoy it, and I hope you enjoy everyone else's contributions to this album! I know I do. + This is by far the most complicated piece of art I've done for the team yet. Since the album itself is split into two halves about both the Felt and Midnight Crew, I wanted both parties to have equal representation on the cover. (I was planning on having Vrasky/Snowman included, but it was really hard to find space for her - everyone's super close together as is! So I settled on having her hat/horns resting on the piano.) An idea quickly sprang forth - the entire Felt, staring in horror at the shitty Midnight Crew. The Midnight Crew's poses and positions in this cover mimic how they looked on [[album:midnight-crew-drawing-dead|Drawing Dead]] (plus blush on the cheeks!). Since I've had a couple people ask - none of this is ripped from Homestuck. I drew all of it myself! I did use a ton of reference though, from the aforementioned album cover and images on the wiki. The background is based off of the Felt Manor's first appearance in the CANWC intermission. All the colors are adapted from The Inaugural Death of Mister Seven. Originally, the entire Felt was supposed to be monochromatic, but after some people told me to change up the color scheme, I realized that this effect made everything kinda pop, and look a lot more unique. I'm really proud of this piece! I hope you enjoy it, and I hope you enjoy everyone else's contributions to this album! I know I do. + + <img src="media/misc/intermishin-beta.png" width="300px"> + + <i>Ngame:</i> + (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQMB5o8_uQU">Community listening stream w/ chat</a>) --- Section: Midnigt Crewd Side --- @@ -114,7 +119,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/QiYx2irExhA Commentary: |- <i>Wheals:</i> (Lyricist) - Originally [[artist:pipko-fanfare|dC]] made this as a DVS-font-swap of WANO called "We are Toby Fox" but didn't have any lyrics ideas; I suggested making an intermishin song out of it and did a rewrite of the canon lyrics in a few minutes. Turned out pretty well, since you can't exactly go wrong with DVS sax. + Originally [[artist:pipko-fanfare|dC]] made this as a DVS-font-swap of WANO called "We are [[group:toby-fox|Toby Fox]]" but didn't have any lyrics ideas; I suggested making an intermishin song out of it and did a rewrite of the canon lyrics in a few minutes. Turned out pretty well, since you can't exactly go wrong with DVS sax. <i>cookiefonster:</i> (Voice Actor) I'm amazed my recording of vocals didnt turn out like shit @@ -141,7 +146,7 @@ Commentary: |- I apologize for any false expectations set by the title. <i>cookiefonster:</i> (Artist) - <span style="font-family: comic sans ms, courier, courier new">me too.</span> + me too. --- Track: Heck the Clonk Artists: @@ -158,13 +163,14 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Swing of the Clock - The Broken Clock Sampled Tracks: +- 'that one page where Slick hecks up a clock in HS' - The Broken Clock URLs: - https://coolandnewwebcomic.bandcamp.com/track/heck-the-clonk - https://youtu.be/uY0tYw2QpmA Commentary: |- <i>Interrobang:</i> (Composer) - This song has a clear story. Theres a clock, and spades h*cks it up. Then it restarts a little wonky, and spades h*kes it up some more. Rinse and repeat. Time signatures used: 4/4, 15/8, and 23/16. (and 13/8 for the end). Samples used: that one page where Slick hecks up a clock in HS, and The Broken Clock by Jit. + This song has a clear story. Theres a clock, and spades h\*cks it up. Then it restarts a little wonky, and spades h*kes it up some more. Rinse and repeat. Time signatures used: 4/4, 15/8, and 23/16. (and 13/8 for the end). Samples used: that one page where Slick hecks up a clock in HS, and The Broken Clock by Jit. <i>CreatorOfJanespeak:</i> (Artist) don't ask how the crowbar stabbed her because it's not sharp enough and wasn't plunged through hard enough; you'll never get an answer. :wackyZany: @@ -200,11 +206,11 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/75LLIvQOW-o Commentary: |- <i>Wheals:</i> (Composer) - This is an ancient idea I had, dating all the way back to the days of voulem. 1 when I made an HB song -- I wanted to make a song for every member of the MC, then finally a song that used all four previous. The intermishin album provided the best possible motivation to actually get down and do this. I'm not super happy with the song honestly, but it was something I felt I had to make to complete the plan I made all the way back. + This is an ancient idea I had, dating all the way back to the days of [[album:cool-and-new-voulem1|voulem. 1]] when I made an HB song -- I wanted to make a song for every member of the MC, then finally a song that used all four previous. The intermishin album provided the best possible motivation to actually get down and do this. I'm not super happy with the song honestly, but it was something I felt I had to make to complete the plan I made all the way back. <i>Austinado:</i> (Artist) this piece really speaks volumes of its intense creation process, i did it in like half an hour with two cans of Mtn Dew Code Red™ and an inspiration to not only put every important item and person in the intermishin on these pictures, but to also run out of ideas and put bart simpson on it instead of something else - also also read vast error + also also read [[group:deconrecon|vast error]] --- Track: Licord Jazzcrasty Artists: @@ -212,6 +218,7 @@ Artists: Cover Artists: - cosmicTerrorist - XenoZane +- Scarodactyl Art Tags: - Spdaes Sleck - Jack Noir @@ -232,6 +239,10 @@ Commentary: |- <i>XenoZane:</i> (Artist) i dont know why i am credited at all for this i did jack shit lmaoo + + <i>Scarodactyl:</i> (Art Improver) + It was inevitable + <img src="media/misc/licord-jazzcrasty-muscles.png" width="300"> --- Track: Fresh Jimmy's Fresh Swingz (ft. vrasky) Artists: @@ -313,7 +324,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/BNhJuJIRjRo Commentary: |- <i>cryptologicalMystic:</i> (Composer) - HAPPY HAPPY FUN GAMBLE LUCKY JOYFUL ＴＩＭＥ ＴＯ ＤＩＥ + HAPPY HAPPY FUN GAMBLE LUCKY JOYFUL ＴＩＭＥ ＴＯ ＤＩＥ <i>cryptologicalMystic:</i> (Artist) because flaying someone to wear their skin as a disguise is a tactic right out of a goddamn horror movie and i wanted to draw attention to this fact @@ -350,16 +361,16 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/Y7SpDqt2kD4 Commentary: |- <i>Interrobang:</i> (Composer) - I had an idea for a Knife Party based Spades Slick song a while ago, but I scrapped it because i couldnt really think of where to go with it. However, I did have this other random piece that I was working on that was Walk-Stab-Walk but the ‘drums’ were those weird ASMR noises from Rain from Medium. At some point I realized I could just combine the two, and this song was born. Actually I’m really happy with how this turned out, I only wish I could have thought of an excuse to use Internet Friends samples. Special thanks to Bob for making my original track art idea look good. - <img src="media/misc/stab-stab-stab-beta.png" width="150px" height="150px"/> + I had an idea for a Knife Party based Spades Slick song a while ago, but I scrapped it because i couldnt really think of where to go with it. However, I did have this other random piece that I was working on that was Walk-Stab-Walk but the ‘drums’ were those weird ASMR noises from Rain from [[album:medium|Medium]]. At some point I realized I could just combine the two, and this song was born. Actually I’m really happy with how this turned out, I only wish I could have thought of an excuse to use Internet Friends samples. Special thanks to Bob for making my original track art idea look good. + <img src="media/misc/stab-stab-stab-beta.png" width="150px"> <i>bobthetacocat:</i> (Artist) - "i want the track art to be like this but i can't seem to make it look right" - <span style="font-size: 30px">"i got you one sec"</span> - (like 5 thousand days later) - "how's this" - "yes cool good" - <span style="font-size: 30px">"okay cool but let me add MORE"</span> + "i want the track art to be like this but i can't seem to make it look right"<br> + "<i>i got you one sec</i>"<br> + (like 5 thousand days later)<br> + "<i>how's this</i>"<br> + "yes cool good"<br> + "<i>okay cool but let me add MORE</i>" --- Track: Symphony of W&Z Artists: @@ -376,10 +387,10 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/25Rf6-EkMdI Commentary: |- <i>Cecily Renns:</i> (Composer) - a wacky and zany song i made for the felt, but crypt said the blues feel makes it better for the MC, but the instrumentation is all orchestral which is felt, this is a CONFLICT but i just did what crypt said anyways + a wacky and zany song i made for the felt, but crypt said the blues feel makes it better for the MC, but the instrumentation is all orchestral which is felt, this is a [[track:conflict|CONFLICT]] but i just did what [[artist:discfortune|crypt]] said anyways <i>Makin:</i> (Artist) - <img src="media/misc/wacky-zany-collage.jpg" width="300px" height="300px"/> + <img src="media/misc/wacky-zany-collage.jpg" width="300px"> --- Track: Liquid NegrociTown Artists: @@ -401,8 +412,8 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/YuHQXRlmX7w Commentary: |- <i>SplitSuns:</i> (Composer) - I actually started production on this song before the idea for Intermishin developed. Someone had an idea to mash up Liquid Negrocity and We Are Number One, and I jumped at the opportunity after realizing how similar the chord progressions were. Originally this was going to go on a later album, but after realizing that this was originally a Drawing Dead song I decided to move it to this release. I wanted it to begin in a similar way to my first song "The Endless Black" before quickly diving off the rails into pure insanity. I wanted the song itself to have the instrumentation of WANO with the bass and piano providing the Black-bone, if you will (and I certainly shall.) Robbie's distinctive voice tied the whole thing together, and I had a lot of fun chopping and echoing it up throughout the song. To break up the main idea, I put in a Ballad of Jack Noir-esque tune near the end that I think really helped charge the song with some energy. And of course, it ends in a big finish before fading out in the same way as Liquid Negrocity. This track was pretty complicated to produce, but I think it turned out very well in the end in terms of balance! - Fun fact: there's a reference to Siiva's first WANO rip in the song. I wonder if you can spot it...? + I actually started production on this song before the idea for Intermishin developed. Someone had an idea to mash up Liquid Negrocity and We Are Number One, and I jumped at the opportunity after realizing how similar the chord progressions were. Originally this was going to go on a later album, but after realizing that this was originally a [[album:midnight-crew-drawing-dead|Drawing Dead]] song I decided to move it to this release. I wanted it to begin in a similar way to my first song "[[track:the-endless-black-aka-clockwork-negrocity|The Endless Black]]" before quickly diving off the rails into pure insanity. I wanted the song itself to have the instrumentation of WANO with the bass and piano providing the Black-bone, if you will (and I certainly shall.) Robbie's distinctive voice tied the whole thing together, and I had a lot of fun chopping and echoing it up throughout the song. To break up the main idea, I put in a Ballad of Jack Noir-esque tune near the end that I think really helped charge the song with some energy. And of course, it ends in a big finish before fading out in the same way as Liquid Negrocity. This track was pretty complicated to produce, but I think it turned out very well in the end in terms of balance! + Fun fact: there's a reference to [[artist:silvagunner|Siiva's]] first WANO rip in the song. I wonder if you can spot it...? <i>Ephemerald:</i> (Artist) The basic idea here is pretty simple - combine Spades Sleck and Robbie Rotten to get utter hell. The background is meant to invoke the first panel of the Intermishin - you can see the gateways, the flame, the shitty rug, and a clock throughout the image. At first I just wanted to draw a hyperrealistic version of Sleck's shitty head, but along the way that turned into making his head be a reasonable facsimilie of Robbie's own head. I also modeled Sleck's knife off of the knife he wields very early on, but tried to make it look three-dimensional, once again attempting to convey a hyperrealistic shitty drawing. I made this track art before the album cover, and looking back, those principles are clearly echoed in it as well. The Midnight Crew's lines look pretty much as clean as the Felt because of how "hyperrealistically shitty" I went, so I had to go back and .jpeg them up a bit. I didn't do that with this because... I'm lazy?? @@ -430,7 +441,7 @@ Commentary: |- In many ways midnight suffer was a really Jack Noir feeling song, so I decided to remix/remaster it so that it sounded much more improved. Fittingly the intermishin album idea came into fruitition while I was just finishing the remaster so luckily I had a song for the MC side. I am fairly happy with how it sounds. It took me ages to get the mixing right, and even then I still think certain parts of the song could be improved. Nonetheless I had fun making it and I hope you enjoy it! <i>Makin:</i> (Artist) - <img src="media/misc/bolinfinger.jpg" width="200px" height="200px"/> + <img src="media/misc/bolinfinger.jpg" width="200px"> --- Track: smooth mcgroove - licord nacrasty Artists: @@ -491,7 +502,7 @@ Art Tags: - Snowman - Nepeta Duration: '20:20' -Referenced Tracks: # wake me up +Referenced Tracks: - track:three-in-the-morning - track:three-in-the-morning-rj - Three in the Morning (Kali's 2 in the AM PM Edit) @@ -520,7 +531,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: # wake me up - Cascadium Dioxide - Cascasin - Hoenn Cascade -Sampled Tracks: # can't wake up +Sampled Tracks: - track:three-in-the-morning - track:three-in-the-morning-rj - Three in the Morning (Kali's 2 in the AM PM Edit) @@ -555,6 +566,9 @@ URLs: Commentary: |- <i>Difarem:</i> (Composer) this progression haunts my dreams send help aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa + + <i>Yazshu:</i> (Artist) + <img src="media/misc/fatHusky.png" width="48px"><br> --- Section: Felt Side --- @@ -597,11 +611,11 @@ Commentary: |- One day I guess I decided to stop being shit at music. I don't remember what inspired me to make this, but I really wanted to try using different instruments and take advantage of certain patterns. I am a bit stubborn when it comes to making music, as most of what I compose I try to make without referencing motifs, so I wanted to make my own. Something catchy and, more importantly, GOOD. I made something good, but it was short, and Felt (pun entirely intended) like an introductory track. That's when Difarem swooped in and asked for a midi of the song, which he then turned into something AMAZING. All of the motifs you hear in this song aside from the original ~30 seconds of the song were all added by him, and I have to say they were added quite masterfully. I had once planned to make this be the first of a set of tracks for every member of the Felt, but I only ended up making around 5 or 6 tracks. Most of them were garbage, so you aren't missing out on much. <i>Difarem:</i> (Arranger) - Haven't got really much to add to what Roxe said, but I'm pretty proud of how this track turned out! Some parts could be still worked on, though, and I'm a bit ehhhh about the instrumentation. Oh, and bonus: I self-plagiarized at one point. + Haven't got really much to add to what [[artist:secily-iopara|Roxe]] said, but I'm pretty proud of how this track turned out! Some parts could be still worked on, though, and I'm a bit ehhhh about the instrumentation. Oh, and bonus: I self-plagiarized at one point. <i>bobthetacocat:</i> (Artist) - "here's a sketch of what i want the track art to be" - "i got chu here you go like this" + "here's a sketch of what i want the track art to be"<br> + "<i>i got chu here you go like this</i>"<br> "yeah that's good" --- Track: Emerald Moonlight @@ -623,7 +637,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Cloudaria:</i> (Artist) this art was made in paint.net, thats how you can tell im a TRUE ARTIST unlike the other CHUMPS!!! on this album. that sright, i SAID IT. get owened noobs - This commentary is licensed under a cc-by-nc-sa Creative Commons License. + This commentary is licensed under a cc-by-nc-sa Creative Commons License. <i>Makin:</i> (Commentary transcriber) uh-oh @@ -665,7 +679,10 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/EBIBbdyarZY Commentary: |- <i>GoomFloops:</i> (Composer) - This is very much a track leftover from a collab album myself and the esteemed DHE were working on, but I still like it. It's very slow, very minimalisitic. It also sucks ass, but that's beside the point, y'know? + This is very much a track leftover from a collab album myself and the esteemed [[artist:double-hats-eyewear|DHE]] were working on, but I still like it. It's very slow, very minimalisitic. It also sucks ass, but that's beside the point, y'know? + + <i>Cozy Skeleton:</i> (Artist) + <img src="media/misc/but-nobody-came.png" width="258"" height="51""> --- Track: Lost Track Of Time Artists: @@ -707,7 +724,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/KOc-46mLXQk Commentary: |- <i>Secily Iopara:</i> (Composer) - I made a song and then [[artist:cecily-renns|CR]] decided to make it look shit in comparison. Thanks Cecily. + I made a song and then [[artist:cecily-renns|JJJR]] decided to make it look shit in comparison. Thanks Cecily. <i>yazshu:</i> (Artist) oh my god im just playing club penguin rewrtiten asnd its making me legit kind of emotional. like just the waves of nostalgia and shit and how it feels and seeing all the cool shit @@ -748,7 +765,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Cloudaria:</i> it's honestly not even that big of an edit but i have to say it's my magnum opus - <img src="media/misc/i-love-the-die.png" width="219" height="64"/> + <img src="media/misc/i-love-the-die.png" width="219"> --- Track: Inaugural Artists: @@ -812,7 +829,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/miKpMltrioU Commentary: |- <i>NyashAlex:</i> (Composer) - Rarely has a work of fiction ever had so great an impact on our culture as Moby Dick. Even amongst those amongst us who have the misforunate of being born outside the United States it is considered a cultural landmark. A significant portion of praise for the novel is for the characterisation of its... Deuteragonist, or antagonist, or something else? Just mentioning Captain Ahab summons a vision of unstoppable, furious vengeance. On every page of the novel his anger and hatred for the white whale burns. JohnJRenns serves a similar function to the whale in the Homestuck fanmusic community, being an unholy and incomprehensible terror that we all flee at the name off. Of course, the novel would not be complete without copious referencing to the most famous novel of *that* era, namely Homestuck by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Some even consider the character of the white whale to be loosely based off the character of Sawbuck from the earlier Homestuck, both being huge masses of blubber which show little to no indication of intelligence. This piece of music was composed to represent the slow, onerous march of Sawbuck, unstoppable, his forward progression inevitable, no wounds slowing him down. Under any circumstances, do not attempt to attack Sawbuck, for this *will* backfire. Could you face off in a head-to-head against this time-bending monstrosity? Killing him is no walk in the park, it's safe to say. + Rarely has a work of fiction ever had so great an impact on our culture as Moby Dick. Even amongst those amongst us who have the misforunate of being born outside the United States it is considered a cultural landmark. A significant portion of praise for the novel is for the characterisation of its... Deuteragonist, or antagonist, or something else? Just mentioning Captain Ahab summons a vision of unstoppable, furious vengeance. On every page of the novel his anger and hatred for the white whale burns. [[artist:cecily-renns|JohnJRenns]] serves a similar function to the whale in the Homestuck fanmusic community, being an unholy and incomprehensible terror that we all flee at the name off. Of course, the novel would not be complete without copious referencing to the most famous novel of \*that* era, namely Homestuck by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Some even consider the character of the white whale to be loosely based off the character of Sawbuck from the earlier Homestuck, both being huge masses of blubber which show little to no indication of intelligence. This piece of music was composed to represent the slow, onerous march of Sawbuck, unstoppable, his forward progression inevitable, no wounds slowing him down. Under any circumstances, do not attempt to attack Sawbuck, for this *will* backfire. Could you face off in a head-to-head against this time-bending monstrosity? Killing him is no walk in the park, it's safe to say. <i>Austinado:</i> (Artist) dont hurt the big one he just wants to have a nice time with his friends and have a few butterfingers @@ -891,7 +908,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/5gL9HCntBfc Commentary: |- <i>Koba:</i> (Composer) - So this song was made as a more of an album ender, incorporating (rather just editing together) songs from the album into one. Its mostly taking inspiration from Variations which was the album ender in the original Felt album. Before this, I was going to make a Jade Dragon-type song, but halfway through it started to take too long so I scrapped it. There's still a snippet in the song though, at the end, so it didn't go to waste. Maybe I'll finish it one day and it'll be the best thing you have ever fucking heard idk + So this song was made as a more of an album ender, incorporating (rather just editing together) songs from the album into one. Its mostly taking inspiration from [[track:variations|Variations]] which was the album ender in the original [[album:the-felt|Felt album]]. Before this, I was going to make a [[track:jade-dragon|Jade Dragon]]-type song, but halfway through it started to take too long so I scrapped it. There's still a snippet in the song though, at the end, so it didn't go to waste. Maybe I'll finish it one day and it'll be the best thing you have ever fucking heard idk <i>Makin:</i> (Seer) This does reference the song "jaed dargon" by [[artist:kobacat]], which has not been released as of 2023. @@ -926,7 +943,7 @@ Commentary: |- ((wow okay)) <i>nights:</i> (Artist) - this song is probably my favorite in the whole album. it deserves better art. also read oceanfalls, it has art like this (maybe, sometimes, somewhat ;-; ) + this song is probably my favorite in the whole album. it deserves better art. also read [[group:oceanfalls|oceanfalls]], it has art like this (maybe, sometimes, somewhat ;-; ) --- Track: Scratching Consequences Directory: scratching-consequences diff --git a/album/jpeg.yaml b/album/jpeg.yaml index 9fe8243..9cf326a 100644 --- a/album/jpeg.yaml +++ b/album/jpeg.yaml @@ -28,11 +28,13 @@ Commentary: |- .jpeg is a concept album: the team's artists draw some art and the musicians have to make music based around that art, instead of the usual other way around. 7.20 teraflops of leitmotifs, only on .jpeg + (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgtorV0rWo0">.jpeg trailer</a>) + <i>yazshu:</i> (Organizer) - Hello cool and new fans, its ya boy yazshu here, with an introduction to this album. this album has been in development hell for a pretty long time, and around after the release of bowmania or vol 8, i forget which, we really stepped up production of this with nights and i at the helm. the way this album works by instead of having the track art reflect the music, the music reflects the track art. we started out with our very talented and also our shitposting motherfuckers making a ton of art, which then got cut down to these (and one or two others that didn't get music made for them, one of which being a nutshack track which will be very sadly missed). after the track art was judged, we allowed musicians to pick art and compose a song for them. we have some of our best arts in this album, with sozzay, shadok, william, scarodactyl, twinbuilder, and a ton others highlighting how good our art team really is. nights and i really love this album and all the hard work everyone put into it, and we're really glad for it to finally see the light of day after all this time. Also read my webcomic <a href="http://omegaupdate.freeforums.net/thread/1208/midnight-city-blues/">http://omegaupdate.freeforums.net/thread/1208/midnight-city-blues/</a> + Hello cool and new fans, its ya boy yazshu here, with an introduction to this album. this album has been in development hell for a pretty long time, and around after the release of [[album:bowmania|bowmania]] or [[album:v8lume|vol 8]], i forget which, we really stepped up production of this with nights and i at the helm. the way this album works by instead of having the track art reflect the music, the music reflects the track art. we started out with our very talented and also our shitposting motherfuckers making a ton of art, which then got cut down to these (and one or two others that didn't get music made for them, one of which being a nutshack track which will be very sadly missed). after the track art was judged, we allowed musicians to pick art and compose a song for them. we have some of our best arts in this album, with [[artist:sozzay|sozzay]], [[artist:shadok|shadok]], [[artist:william|william]], [[artist:scarodactyl|scarodactyl]], [[artist:ephemerald|twinbuilder]], and a ton others highlighting how good our art team really is. nights and i really love this album and all the hard work everyone put into it, and we're really glad for it to finally see the light of day after all this time. Also read my webcomic <a href="http://omegaupdate.freeforums.net/thread/1208/midnight-city-blues/">http://omegaupdate.freeforums.net/thread/1208/midnight-city-blues/</a> <i>nights:</i> (Organizer) - I love each and every single contributer to this album, as well as every singleperson in the stream. Please read oceanfalls. <a href="oceanfalls.net">oceanfalls.net</a> + I love each and every single contributer to this album, as well as every singleperson in the stream. Please read [[group:oceanfalls|oceanfalls]]. <a href="oceanfalls.net">oceanfalls.net</a> <i>Interrobang:</i> (Booklet Boy) My customary end-of-booklet commentary goes at the front this time. This ended up a great album and I'm really glad we finally got it released. My one regret is not having a fanventure to shill in this front section. @@ -45,6 +47,9 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Shadok:</i> (Cover Artist) try to guess all the characters!!!!!! (there's 32 or 33 characters i think) + + <i>Ngame:</i> + (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5mGk2Z01AI">Community listening stream w/ chat</a>) --- Track: OFF course Artists: @@ -103,6 +108,8 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Interrobang:</i> (Composer) ive been working on this one for quite a while. The beginning (done somewhere around 7 months ago or so) was pretty basic, but once this album got closer to completion I went back to it and made some additions that hopefully make it a bit cooler. Anyway, the whole piece was done in pxtone, a DAW created by the maker of cave story, for cave story's music, hence, Dave Story + + And another thing: If you fuckig call this shit song a soundfont swap again I will come to your fucking house and play both is and the original Beatdown by [[artist:curt-blakeslee|Curt NOROCK Blakeslee]] at the same time, one into each of your ears, at +20 decibels. FUCK YOU --- Track: jhon vs dabe Artists: @@ -152,8 +159,8 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Greenagon:</i> (Artist) I hate this and you don't have my permission to use this in your album. Neither do I give you permission to use this comment by me. I swear to fuck I'll sue. - <i>Kusoro:</i> (Musician) - BWEEEEEEEEEEEEE THE KEYTAR GENTLY WEEPS (also unintentional moshi slash penumbra is the next big thing) - masterester of album renns + <i>Cecily Renns:</i> (Master-er) + BWEEEEEEEEEEEEE THE KEYTAR GENTLY WEEPS (also [[track:unintentional-touhou|unintentional]] moshi slash [[track:penumbra-phantasm|penumbra]] is the next big thing) --- Track: No Fursuit, No Shoes, No Service Artists: @@ -180,15 +187,15 @@ Commentary: |- searching around for a CANWC page to make a track art out of, i came across a funny scene of hecka jef being accosted by furry prospit guards after jaed spots him not wearing a fursuit. it looked very neat for doing a track art, and i figured that people could easily make a song for it using motifs for hecka jef and jaed, so i did it! (this is now several months old at this point :O can you believe it??) <i>Pipko Fanfare:</i> (Composer) - Before I picked this track art to do a song for, I knew I wanted to try to pull off something similar to what CANWC itself does - the seamless mixing of remarkably low quality with suprisingly high quality, based on familiar homestucky goodness but with some unexpected twists - more like Vol 1 than our more recent (at the time) work. I also wanted to play with some more of Jade's tracks, and with the prositan guards under her control this was one of the track arts that would let me do so. (The other option at the time was Yiff Confirmed, which I may have chosen instead except it was the same artist as Thank You For Playing and I wanted to spread the love around more. Besides, this art is *awesome*.) + Before I picked this track art to do a song for, I knew I wanted to try to pull off something similar to what CANWC itself does - the seamless mixing of remarkably low quality with suprisingly high quality, based on familiar homestucky goodness but with some unexpected twists - more like Vol 1 than our more recent (at the time) work. I also wanted to play with some more of Jade's tracks, and with the prositan guards under her control this was one of the track arts that would let me do so. (The other option at the time was Yiff Confirmed, which I may have chosen instead except it was the same artist as [[track:thank-you-for-playing|Thank You For Playing]] and I wanted to spread the love around more. Besides, this art is \*awesome*.) Unlike nearly everything I've done here, this track had a surprising amount of planning before I set down the first note. For the sake of history, here's my original plan for the structure of the piece, cut and paste from discord - uu but the piano intro is h*cka (probs sbhj theme) then 0:25 low-quality uu with barks and meows then 0:45 kick into higher quality to build up to 0:55 hq except with a mario paint bark lead then at 1:20 at the melody switch go to a skaia theme or something instead for the prospitans but keep the style of uu, 1:56 refrain of hj intro, 2:15 8-bit dogsong holy shit this song is longer than i remembered + [[track:umbral-ultimatum|uu]] but the piano intro is [[track:where-making-this-hapen|h*cka (probs sbhj theme)]] then 0:25 low-quality uu with barks and meows then 0:45 kick into higher quality to build up to 0:55 hq except with a mario paint bark lead then at 1:20 at the melody switch go to a skaia theme or something instead for the prospitans but keep the style of uu, 1:56 refrain of hj intro, 2:15 8-bit dogsong holy shit this song is longer than i remembered (Okay, so that's only a lot of planning compared to my usual zero. And you can see I changed my mind on a few things later.) Cookiefonster made the frytumes while I was still working on the beginning sections, and let's be real it's way better than I could have done! - I tried a few different techniques to represent The Corruption, some revisited from Vol 1 tracks, some new. For example, in the section from 0:30 to 0:50 alone I utilized pitch bending the master channel, intentionally knocking different instrument tracks slightly out of alignment or tempo, and of course good old fashioned craptastic soundfonts. A little after the two minute mark, you'll hear some mouth sounds from me, even some coughing if you listen close enough! Overall, I feel like I was much more successful at the "low quality" portions than the "high quality" ones here, but that's part of the learning process. + I tried a few different techniques to represent The Corruption, some revisited from [[album:cool-and-new-voulem1|Vol 1]] tracks, some new. For example, in the section from 0:30 to 0:50 alone I utilized pitch bending the master channel, intentionally knocking different instrument tracks slightly out of alignment or tempo, and of course good old fashioned craptastic soundfonts. A little after the two minute mark, you'll hear some mouth sounds from me, even some coughing if you listen close enough! Overall, I feel like I was much more successful at the "low quality" portions than the "high quality" ones here, but that's part of the learning process. <i>cookiefonster:</i> (Composer) - I made a chiptune thing combining Umbral Ultimatum and Dogsong because I was bored, Pipko asked if he could use it in his song, I said sure + I made a chiptune thing combining Umbral Ultimatum and Dogsong because I was bored, [[artist:pipko-fanfare|dC]] asked if she could use it in his song, I said sure --- Track: '[s) rose / jef: strife!' Artists: @@ -218,7 +225,7 @@ Commentary: |- i mean i saw future potential in canwc storylines so i made art for it and hoped a song would get flash bait and then cookie made a song and even though its old it sounds good and i like it. also this art is old and bad i would remake it but no <i>cookiefonster:</i> (Composer) - I made this so long ago it's unreal, and honestly it probably shows. It's pretty much a song out of my solo album but for Rose and Hecka Jef. At least the background CSS for Act 4 of CANWC shows Rose and Jef apparently posed for strifing or something??? Can't say I didn't get lucky. + I made this so long ago it's unreal, and honestly it probably shows. It's pretty much a song out of [[album:of-troles-and-chiptumes|my solo album]] but for Rose and Hecka Jef. At least the background CSS for Act 4 of CANWC shows Rose and Jef apparently posed for strifing or something??? Can't say I didn't get lucky. --- Track: HS and New Artists: @@ -241,7 +248,7 @@ Commentary: |- Rules for the track arts was to be related to either homestuck or canwc so i did both <i>dbnet18:</i> (Composer) - This song is basically a mashup between Doctor and RCT. I guess I could say that this thing took me an hour due to it being just a really simple song. I think it really fits the art (but that's the point of this album.) -dbnet18. PS read Vast Error ecks dee + This song is basically a mashup between Doctor and RCT. I guess I could say that this thing took me an hour due to it being just a really simple song. I think it really fits the art (but that's the point of this album.) PS read [[group:deconrecon|Vast Error]] ecks dee --- Track: She's a D8ddy Lon8 L8gs Directory: shes-a-d8ddy-lon8-l8gs @@ -273,7 +280,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Die. Commentary: |- <i>Scarodactyl:</i> (Artist) - I thought it was a funny title and the rest followed from there. Coy has given it much, much better than it deserves. + I thought it was a funny title and the rest followed from there. [[artist:mathias-ramalho|Coy]] has given it much, much better than it deserves. <i>Mathias Ramalho:</i> (Composer) As far as I got making this monstrosity, this is one of the best things I've made. I was going for something longer and more complex, but technical difficulties took me out of my dreams. This is great though! @@ -565,7 +572,7 @@ Commentary: |- When I saw the initial sketch of Jeff I was immediately impressed by the pose and gesture which brought to mind the renaissance masters. At first I just added a burly arm as per usual, but this time I couldn't stop there and felt compelled to paint over the rest of him. <i>trip:</i> (Artist) - this was originally going to be for u killed swet bro: prepare to die, but i was unable to finish it in time. i did the pose for jef and stff like the hair. scaro did a bunch more work on it and then more people added onto it. im really happy that people liked it enough to collaborate on it and i cant really take all too much credit for what it became (read: awesome.) + this was originally going to be for [[track:u-kiled-swet-bro-prepare-to-die|u killed swet bro: prepare to die]], but i was unable to finish it in time. i did the pose for jef and stff like the hair. scaro did a bunch more work on it and then more people added onto it. im really happy that people liked it enough to collaborate on it and i cant really take all too much credit for what it became (read: awesome.) <i>Ahnock:</i> (Artist) I did the background, I pretty much just merged pictures of brass instruments over the time symbol and then heck'd around in paint.net until it looked cool. @@ -698,7 +705,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Hm hm hm hm hm hm hm hm Minecraft Commentary: |- <i>Ephemerald:</i> (Artist) - I knew I wanted to make another artwork for .JPEG after Nancho, but I was struggling to come up with ideas. After listening to HUMBLE. for like the millionth time, an idea flew through my mind in a sudden fit of inspiration - copy DAMN.'s cover art, replace Kendrick with Jack, and rename it to HECK., because that's a seriously badass swear. I'm honestly very surprised with how quickly this artwork came together - it only took a couple of hours or so. The "SHITPOST ADVISORY" warning was based off of another track art someone had made for .JPEG, but it was hand-drawn, so I decided to replicate the official warning as best as I could, and I'm very happy with the result. + I knew I wanted to make another artwork for .JPEG after [[track:legend-of-jhon-breath-of-the-nacho|Nancho]], but I was struggling to come up with ideas. After listening to HUMBLE. for like the millionth time, an idea flew through my mind in a sudden fit of inspiration - copy DAMN.'s cover art, replace Kendrick with Jack, and rename it to HECK., because that's a seriously badass swear. I'm honestly very surprised with how quickly this artwork came together - it only took a couple of hours or so. The "SHITPOST ADVISORY" warning was based off of another track art someone had made for .JPEG, but it was hand-drawn, so I decided to replicate the official warning as best as I could, and I'm very happy with the result. <i>Minkt:</i> (Composer) WE GOT A WEAKNESS @@ -739,7 +746,7 @@ Lyrics: |- (Sex) Commentary: |- <i>olkiswerve:</i> (Artist) - I was listening to TPAB at the time and thought it would be funny to make a jpeg submission with the album art as a parody, but I got fed up with trying to draw it and did good kid maad city instead. I'm pretty happy with the way i t turned out and also apparently I inspired HECK. which is pretty cool. like, imagine drawing some bullshit in GIMP and fucking picasso comes by like "oh wow damn dude I gotta get on that." incredible. + I was listening to TPAB at the time and thought it would be funny to make a jpeg submission with the album art as a parody, but I got fed up with trying to draw it and did good kid maad city instead. I'm pretty happy with the way i t turned out and also apparently I inspired HECK. which is pretty cool. like, imagine drawing some bullshit in GIMP and fucking picasso comes by like "oh wow damn dude I gotta get on that." incredible. also I totally requested that the musician sample "I remember you was conflicted". I know it's not on good kid maad city it's just funny, fuck off, the song is super good maybe one day I'll still do that TPAB album cover, who knows :eyes: @@ -777,7 +784,7 @@ Commentary: |- this art was made because links made a theory about caliborns derse not being real, due to cherub shenanigans. im not links but hes not even on this team so he cant do commentary. im links and i love eating buttholes and smelling big balls <i>Kal-la-kal-la:</i> (Composer) - OK so I found out there were still unclaimed track arts for jpeg a couple of days before the deadline. My first instinct was to pick this one since any opportunity to utilise the Calliope themes Voidlight and The Lyrist, by Thomas Ferkol, is a good opportunity to me. Of course, the other important character here is Jack Noir, who I represented with Walk-Stab-Walk by Erik Scheele, a lovely piece with wonderful melodies tbh, as well as an attempt to incorporate features of Archagent Everlasting by JohnJRenns (and I say an attempt because that song is dissonant as hell god *damn*). Reverie by Alexander Rossetti makes an appearance in the synth arps, faultily transcribed by yours truly. And then there's Carne Vale, which is strictly speaking a Caliborn theme, but Caliborn is an important player in the grand theory of a Derse-less Cherub Session. So I combined these motifs into this tune presented here, the steady pulsing rhythm of the first half somewhat inspired by To Cross The Void by NiceWizard from Redditstuck Vol. 2, and the second half perhaps subconsciously inspired by Another Chance by Eston 'Silence' Schweickart, from One Year Older. Having put that together I figured I'd put a drum solo at the end, being entirely devoid of other ideas as to how close off the piece. I'd like to think that I did the art justice on the whole. + OK so I found out there were still unclaimed track arts for jpeg a couple of days before the deadline. My first instinct was to pick this one since any opportunity to utilise the Calliope themes Voidlight and The Lyrist, by [[artist:thomas-ferkol|Thomas Ferkol]], is a good opportunity to me. Of course, the other important character here is Jack Noir, who I represented with Walk-Stab-Walk by [[artist:erik-scheele|Erik Scheele]], a lovely piece with wonderful melodies tbh, as well as an attempt to incorporate features of Archagent Everlasting by [[artist:cecily-renns|JohnJRenns]] (and I say an attempt because that song is dissonant as hell god *damn*). Reverie by [[artist:alex-rosetti|Alex Rossetti]] makes an appearance in the synth arps, faultily transcribed by yours truly. And then there's Carne Vale, which is strictly speaking a Caliborn theme, but Caliborn is an important player in the grand theory of a Derse-less Cherub Session. So I combined these motifs into this tune presented here, the steady pulsing rhythm of the first half somewhat inspired by To Cross The Void by NiceWizard from Redditstuck Vol. 2, and the second half perhaps subconsciously inspired by [[track:another-chance|Another Chance]] by Eston 'Silence' Schweickart, from [[album:one-year-older|One Year Older]]. Having put that together I figured I'd put a drum solo at the end, being entirely devoid of other ideas as to how close off the piece. I'd like to think that I did the art justice on the whole. --- Track: The Art of Stealing Faces Artists: @@ -794,10 +801,10 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/A-jt-eRH3OE Commentary: |- <i>Makin:</i> (Artist) - [[track:the-art-of-making-babies]] is an underrated track and I felt I needed to reference it at some point, also dadd needs more tracks, like jesus guys, actually read the comic sometime + [[track:the-hymn-of-making-babies]] is an underrated track and I felt I needed to reference it at some point, also dadd needs more tracks, like jesus guys, actually read the comic sometime <i>Isoleucine:</i> (Composer) - fact: the final version of this song has 16 patterns, 4 automation clips, and 12 instruments. 10 of the instruments are syntheseisers, all of which are Serum except for one autogun. The other two instruments are the breakbeat drums. Also- I forgot Makin gets to name the track and started internally referring to it as "the ballad of dad" Thanks to nights for defending this slot for me + fact: the final version of this song has 16 patterns, 4 automation clips, and 12 instruments. 10 of the instruments are syntheseisers, all of which are Serum except for one autogun. The other two instruments are the breakbeat drums. Also- I forgot [[artist:makin|Makin]] gets to name the track and started internally referring to it as "the ballad of dad" Thanks to [[artist:nights|nights]] for defending this slot for me --- Track: Shoplifting from the Beast Artists: @@ -825,7 +832,7 @@ Commentary: |- This was basically a drawing of things I wanted to see more of in Homestuck: cool locations like LoHaC, giant denizen monsters, and davesprite getting into swordfights. And, of course, big beefy arms. <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> (Composer) - This was a pretty easy concept for a song. Just combine some Dave/Davesprite themes and melodies from that one denizen song, and blam you're done. + This was a pretty easy concept for a song. Just combine some Dave/Davesprite themes and melodies from [[track:bargaining-with-the-beast|that one denizen song]], and blam you're done. --- Track: Momi vs Artists: @@ -844,7 +851,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:megalovania-undertale Commentary: |- <i>Wights End:</i> (Artist) - This was also a track art for Volume Twos that never got used. I can't remember what the original track was like, or what inspired me to have momi about to kill an inanimate object, but I like the drawing nonetheless. + This was also a track art for [[album:cool-and-new-volume-2|Volume Twos]] that never got used. I can't remember what the original track was like, or what inspired me to have momi about to kill an inanimate object, but I like the drawing nonetheless. <i>greentie:</i> (Composer) Idek but i instantly thought megalovania after seeing the pictire @@ -872,7 +879,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Hardchorale Commentary: |- <i>Shadok:</i> (Artist) - GOddamit this was for the first sound test too + GOddamit this was for the [[album:canwc-sound-test-1|first sound test]] too <i>SplitSuns:</i> (Composer) Shadok's base idea for this song was to re-imagine Upward Movement with more modern synths, and I stuck pretty close to that direction! I tried to go all-out for this one, creating a chopped and screwed soundscape to suit a character such as Davepeta. I incorporated themes suited to both Dave and Nepeta, with a little bit of Undertale music as well to tie everything together! I think you can understand why if you pay attention to the name of this track. All in all, I tried to make this song serious yet suitably silly for Davepeta's character (notice the meows?) and I hope I succeeded. @@ -894,7 +901,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/1mDFMR9vIDY Commentary: |- <i>Wights End:</i> (Artist) - When I first joined Cool and New Music Team, I submitted a terribly bad Heir of Grief midi swap using out of tune samples from other songs (I think it may be on soundtest one) and this is the trackart for it. considering that the song was never officially released and was a pile of bile in the form of a mp3 file, I figured it'd be best not to let the art go to waste, even if it's also complete shit. I was going to replace this track art with something that actually took effort, but I never got around to it due to problems with my computer; and also being a lazy asshole. I'm sorry for not making any original art for this album; or even using any art that wasn't made almost a year ago. + When I first joined Cool and New Music Team, I submitted a terribly bad [[track:err-of-greif-original-mix|Heir of Grief midi swap using out of tune samples from other songs]] (I think it may be on soundtest one) and this is the trackart for it. considering that the song was never officially released and was a pile of bile in the form of a mp3 file, I figured it'd be best not to let the art go to waste, even if it's also complete shit. I was going to replace this track art with something that actually took effort, but I never got around to it due to problems with my computer; and also being a lazy asshole. I'm sorry for not making any original art for this album; or even using any art that wasn't made almost a year ago. <i>isy:</i> (Composer) I had a project file that I was working on while sitting in some room while my mom was doing a presentation, and i realized that it kind of felt like what the art would sound like, so I figured i'd finish it and submit it as my song. Also i'm really bad at naming things and super stressed out atm so, sorry I guess. EDIT: sorry about it being so short too, I was running out of ideas and I was getting really scared about not finishing in time so I just said fuck it and submitted it. @@ -940,7 +947,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Epona's Song Commentary: |- <i>Secily Iopara:</i> (Artist) - I did this instead of classwork while listening to SiIva's 413 Epona's Song rip. + I did this instead of classwork while listening to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1GRBsfPQbA">SiIva's 413 Epona's Song rip</a>. <i>Cecily Renns:</i> (Album Mastererer) but... horses dont meow... my world is shattered @@ -970,10 +977,10 @@ Sampled Tracks: - AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Commentary: |- <i>VulkanShawl:</i> (Artist) - Kissing heads is a thing that CANWC needs. Pls o make it canon. + Kissing heads is a thing that CANWC needs. Pls [[artist:o|o]] make it canon. <i>Wheals:</i> (Composer) - I had the idea for this in early May, but because of the semester ending and thereafter going on vacation I didn't get around to working on it until the week before the release. The idea was for it (or the serious part, at least) to borrow Unite Synchronization's overall structure, and while it only did that a little, I'm happy with the similarities. This is the hardest I've bullshitted orchestrally and I'm not sure yet if it wore me out or made me want to do more. Full credit to cookiefonster for reminding me that Donkey Kong SFX are Swet Bro's leitmotif. + I had the idea for this in early May, but because of the semester ending and thereafter going on vacation I didn't get around to working on it until the week before the release. The idea was for it (or the serious part, at least) to borrow [[track:unite-synchronization|Unite Synchronization's]] overall structure, and while it only did that a little, I'm happy with the similarities. This is the hardest I've bullshitted orchestrally and I'm not sure yet if it wore me out or made me want to do more. Full credit to cookiefonster for reminding me that Donkey Kong SFX are Swet Bro's leitmotif. --- Track: Ultimate Hope Artists: @@ -1150,4 +1157,4 @@ Commentary: |- Hey guys im alive -- I doodled (mostly tracing in Sai, a bit of photoshop) this during one of those times we thought Siiva ended. One of those dozens of times. You think the channel could have a more satisfying ending than Homestuck?.....Yeah probably. <i>Pipko Fanfare:</i> (Composer) - I don't think this one requires any explanation. But it *does* make a great excuse to thank you all for playing with us and joining along in this crazy ride. Thank you all for your support, and I'll see you next album! \ No newline at end of file + I don't think this one requires any explanation. But it \*does* make a great excuse to thank you all for playing with us and joining along in this crazy ride. Thank you all for your support, and I'll see you next album! \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/album/v8lume.yaml b/album/v8lume.yaml index d454c10..77feab5 100644 --- a/album/v8lume.yaml +++ b/album/v8lume.yaml @@ -36,21 +36,31 @@ Additional Files: Files: - volume_8_booklet_FINAL.pdf Commentary: |- + <i>Cool and New Music Team:</i> + (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcJpoAOPxTw">[S] It Came From Volume 8</a>) + + <i>Ngame:</i> + (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIxsF01kAaw&t=2593">Community listening stream w/ chat</a>) + <i>bobthetacocat:</i> (Artist) - Let me tell you a little story that starts from Volume V. The art team were having an "let's go through our art and see how much it sucks" binge, when I came across my track art for "i need an abumbalnce!!.mp3" and saw the LOWAS in the top left corner. The first thing I thought to myself was "hey, I could make that better." And so the editing of the original begins, and I end up with this. After getting a lot of positive reception and people asking me to make other planets, I decided to do this: start (and finish) LOHAC, then move on to LOLAR, then finally LOFAF. Over the course of working on LOHAC (which took too long to make the base circle of) I realized that I wasn't going to do anything with them, effectively making these for no reason. About this time is where I had the idea of arranging them in a Volume 8 cover fashion because, hey, I had the planets, I could do the thing, what's to lose? - After finishing LOHAC, XenoZane (sup booklet guy) asked me to do LOLAR, and as a joke, I decided to do LOLAF, Rose's CANWC planet instead. That joke was the only reason I had LOLAF handy and decided to do LODAR soon after finshing LOLAR. (and by soon after i mean the same day) + Let me tell you a little story that starts from [[album:cool-and-new-volume-v|Volume V]]. The art team were having an "let's go through our art and see how much it sucks" binge, when I came across my track art for "[[track:i-need-an-abumbalncemp3|i need an abumbalnce!!.mp3]]" and saw the LOWAS in the top left corner. The first thing I thought to myself was "hey, I could make that better." And so the editing of the original begins, and I end up with this. After getting a lot of positive reception and people asking me to make other planets, I decided to do this: start (and finish) LOHAC, then move on to LOLAR, then finally LOFAF. Over the course of working on LOHAC (which took too long to make the base circle of) I realized that I wasn't going to do anything with them, effectively making these for no reason. About this time is where I had the idea of arranging them in a Volume 8 cover fashion because, hey, I had the planets, I could do the thing, what's to lose? + After finishing LOHAC, [[artist:xenozane|XenoZane]] (sup booklet guy) asked me to do LOLAR, and as a joke, I decided to do LOLAF, Rose's CANWC planet instead. That joke was the only reason I had LOLAF handy and decided to do LODAR soon after finshing LOLAR. (and by soon after i mean the same day) The same day is when i decided to make a base concept for what I was going to do with these planets that would have no use otherwise. After placing the planets that I had in their positions, more people starting noticing that the art for the planets had no use at the time. I made a second concept art the next day. - On the same day, Makin noticed the art i was making and said this. Now, for some reason, my brain read that as "you can have the volume 8 spot" for some wild, bizzare, :wackyZany: reason. ((Insider info: the original Volume 8 album art was repurposed into the CaNHS3 album art.)) + On the same day, [[artist:makin|Makin]] noticed the art i was making and said this. Now, for some reason, my brain read that as "you can have the volume 8 spot" for some wild, bizzare, :wackyZany: reason. ((Insider info: the original Volume 8 album art was repurposed into the CaNHS3 album art.)) For some unknown reason, it took me three days to make LOFAF, and two days later I decided to make a "final plan" that never worked out, and made an 8 for the cover slightly after. It took me too long to do the stars, about a week or something like that, but I got them done and that's all that matters. I added the Vrasky not too long after. So yeah. That's the story about how a little edit to an old project stemmed into the cover for an album, and a project that I consider one of my best. Overall, making the Volume 8 cover was a really fun project, and helping this team (and the team helping me) has been the greatest thing I've experienced in years, maybe ever. I hope you have fun (or had fun, if you're reading this retroactively) with the album. Stay safe out there. - <img src="media/misc/v8lume-collage.jpg" width="450" height="300"/> + <img src="media/misc/v8lume-collage.jpg" width="450"> - <i>XenoZane:</i> (Team Member) + <i>XenoZane:</i> (Booklet Assembler) fuck you bob i do not read your commentary because you put so many fucking pictures like goddamn + + I wanted to contribute to the team more than just uploading youtube videos, so i jumped on the opportunity to make a commentary booklet, as i think the previous ones are really funny. problem is: i had no idea how to even make these. i wouldnt have been able to make this without the help of [[artist:interrobang|interrobang]], who sent me the template for the [[album:cool-and-new-homestuck|canh]] commentary booklets and introduced me to adobe indesign. +--- +Section: Main album --- Track: Cool and New Music Team Artists: @@ -144,7 +154,7 @@ URLs: Commentary: |- <i>TirantBacon:</i> (Composer) Ah, unintentional touhou. How unintentionally touhou. This unintentionally reminds me of a particular song that ends with touhou and starts with unintentional. - Making this song was absurdly fun. It was the first time I've really got to make another version of someone else's song, and I enjoyed what I could do with it. It's not a huge song, and especially not a crazy song in any way shape or form. It was just a small idea that ended with me putting it on the album. And yes, it doesn't sound like a touhou song at all. I'm not a mad man, and especially not ZUN in the slightest :) + Making this song was absurdly fun. It was the first time I've really got to make another version of someone else's song, and I enjoyed what I could do with it. It's not a huge song, and especially not a crazy song in any way shape or form. It was just a small idea that ended with me putting it on the album. And yes, it doesn't sound like a touhou song at all. I'm not a mad man, and especially not [[artist:zun|ZUN]] in the slightest :) All I can really hope is that you like it as much as I liked making it! <i>CreatorOfJanespeak:</i> (Artist) @@ -241,7 +251,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Bowstutzlogic Commentary: |- <i>Makin:</i> (Composer) - This is my [[track:three-in-the-morning-4-13-hours-late-remix-canwc-gh|4 1/3 hours late mix]], as a homage to the best two comedians/artists/geniuses vaguely associated to the Homestuck and Cool and New fandoms for some reason. I hope you enjoy the soothing bowtunes and stutzballades together with the electronic Daft Punk shit. The new instrumentals are actually BACK YARD vocoded, but it seems I went too far in distorting them. If you think this is repetitive, the original song is 5 minutes long and has less variety, so don't complain :jaedAngery: + This is my [[track:three-in-the-morning-4-13-hours-late-remix-canwc-gh|4 1/3 hours late mix]], as a homage to the best two comedians/artists/geniuses vaguely associated to the Homestuck and Cool and New fandoms for some reason. I hope you enjoy the soothing bowtunes and stutzballades together with the electronic Daft Punk shit. The new instrumentals are actually BACK YARD vocoded, but it seems I went too far in distorting them. If you think this is repetitive, the original song is 5 minutes long and has less variety, so don't complain <img src="media/misc/JaedAngery.png" width="24"> <i>Saeko:</i> I dont even know what to type here, just throwing some bowman memes with shitty effects and done I guess. @@ -554,7 +564,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/LcSHXutWY4U Commentary: |- <i>MrCheeze:</i> (Composer) - I've always felt these albums could use a bit more of an avant garde side. If it sounds like "normal music", are you even really trying? That said, this song is litterally just notes placed at random on a piano roll. It's about as good as you could expect from that, but the song "o" from volume s*x was a much better implementation of that philosophy. + I've always felt these albums could use a bit more of an avant garde side. If it sounds like "normal music", are you even really trying? That said, this song is litterally just notes placed at random on a piano roll. It's about as good as you could expect from that, but the song [[track:o|"o" from volume s*x]] was a much better implementation of that philosophy. --- Track: Jhon's Lament Artists: @@ -622,7 +632,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/cGD-yOP2_Tk Commentary: |- <i>BitesizeBird:</i> (Composer) - Not that anyone cares but it's been 3 months since I made a song, so I thought I'd make return with a song that I don't hear remixed all that often. Shoutout to Kali, Bird and Bird and Simpleflips. + Not that anyone cares but it's been 3 months since I made a song, so I thought I'd make return with a song that I don't hear remixed all that often. Shoutout to [[artist:kalibration|Kali]], Bird and Bird and Simpleflips. <i>BitesizeBird:</i> (Artist) Davesprite, but with bigger wings. That was it really. I wonder if he's compensating for his bird dick something. @@ -683,13 +693,12 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/Nk5gEu0GhQg Commentary: |- <i>Wheals:</i> (Composer) - "This started as a really old project (originally planned for volume s*x!) to make a Rose song based on an original melody I had written and thought sounded pretty nice. That melody still remains, in the final section of the song. + "This started as a really old project (originally planned for [[album:cool-and-new-volume-sx|volume s*x]]!) to make a Rose song based on an original melody I had written and thought sounded pretty nice. That melody still remains, in the final section of the song. The song ended up being far more storytelling than I had anticipated, though: it pretty much follows Rose being alone, pestering the shitty trolls, and finally findind Kanaya and leaving with some hope. The title is taken from said pesterlog with Kanaya." <i>Cloudaria:</i> (Ex Artist) - <img src="media/misc/amidst-this-mess-beta.png" width="450" height="450"/> + <img src="media/misc/amidst-this-mess-beta.png" width="350"> i was going to make good trackart but i am currently mildly worried because a test i did needs to be registered by tonight and it's not registering plus i have to go by 5:00 so just take the sketch i did. close your eyes now and imagine this is a beautiful work of art. beautiful, isn't it? i know. i may revisit it. i may not. who knows? life is brief. this art may never be finished in the history of the universe. quite tragic, no? there's probably another universe in which i do, in fact, finish this trackart, but this is not that universe. only those who have seen this trackart know how beautifully i sketch. i think. fun fact: this whole thing was done in paint.net, which is honestly a pretty bad medium for art. what if life is just a dream, and death is just usewaking up from a deep slumber of 78 years on average? also, if you're wondering, the test was a thing on how to respond to an emergency and it's needed for an exercise i'm doing tomorrow. - --- Track: 'pysc0roins: licord boogaloo' Artists: @@ -787,7 +796,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/RGm6kbbV8ZU Commentary: |- <i>cookiefonster:</i> (Composer) - People liked Fighting Spirit Redux so I decided to do another song like that, this time remaking Fighting Spirit Second Form with cool and new motifs. This time I was a lot less self indulgent with picking melodies to use but I got to use some less common ones which was pretty cool and new. My favorite parts of this are Moshi Moshi? and Battle Against an Average Foe. I probably could've used Unintentional Touhou as well but for some reason that didn't occur to me. + People liked [[track:fighting-spirit-redux|Fighting Spirit Redux]] so I decided to do another song like that, this time remaking Fighting Spirit Second Form with cool and new motifs. This time I was a lot less self indulgent with picking melodies to use but I got to use some less common ones which was pretty cool and new. My favorite parts of this are Moshi Moshi? and Battle Against an Average Foe. I probably could've used [[track:unintentional-touhou|Unintentional Touhou]] as well but for some reason that didn't occur to me. <i>trip:</i> (Artist) i tried to mimic the original fighting spirit second form art but with the lodar gang. thats about it. hot artists thoughts on this piece: hecka jef looks like gary oak with a fat ass and a blue onesie but honestly im at peace with that idea. also fresh germyquensprit looks like a fucking demon which is rad. @@ -796,7 +805,7 @@ Commentary: |- I added big, beefy arms ~~for no discernable reason~~ on the advice of my art guru, and they ran with it, and for that I am forever grateful. Original art: - <img src="media/misc/fighting-spirit-double-ascended-form-beta.png" width="450" height="450"/> + <img src="media/misc/fighting-spirit-double-ascended-form-beta.png" width="350"> --- Track: Aura of Colour Directory: aura-of-colour @@ -812,7 +821,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/C1ieAWpteAU Commentary: |- <i>olegoleg123:</i> (Composer) - This song was not originally meant for CANWC and/or Homestuck, however, I decided to apply it here because of two reasons: I felt like it would fit Rose fairly well and I wanted this song to become a persistent leitmotif in CANWC(since original, serious leitmotifs is what the CANWC soundtrack is still very much lacking). Later, I made a few candidates for the ""second version"" of this song(Aura of Void(unfinished), Halloween Track(unrelated to CANWC), Dance of Colour(didn't really turn out all that good), HQ Remaster(didn't really go anywhere after the first two bars, will possibly be continued and released as and ""Alpha Version"")) + This song was not originally meant for CANWC and/or Homestuck, however, I decided to apply it here because of two reasons: I felt like it would fit Rose fairly well and I wanted this song to become a persistent leitmotif in CANWC(since original, serious leitmotifs is what the CANWC soundtrack is still very much lacking). Later, I made a few candidates for the ""second version"" of this song(Aura of Void(unfinished), <a href="https://soundcloud.com/olegoleg123/halloween-2016-preview">Halloween Track</a>(unrelated to CANWC), <a href="https://soundcloud.com/olegoleg123/dance-of-colour">Dance of Colour</a>(didn't really turn out all that good), HQ Remaster(didn't really go anywhere after the first two bars, will possibly be continued and released as and ""Alpha Version"")) This song is to be used when the comic goes from ""mostly ironically shitty and messing around"" to ""100% dark and serious"", which I'm hoping would happen at some point. <i>CreatorOfJanespeak:</i> (Artist) @@ -943,7 +952,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Cecily Renns:</i> (Composer) i think we've come to a point of unacceptable self indulgence, and its all my fault on the Discord server, we value sleep extremely highly, and while a hierarchy based on who gets the best sleep every day sounds,,,, kind of like an awesome setting for a novel, the reality is that we trap people in a jail channel until they go to sleep when they refuse The Bed - something something tnx bambosh, something something :thanks: :wheals:, something something jjr is a fucking asshole, thats all the context needed + something something tnx [[artist:bambosh|bambosh]], something something :thanks: :[[artist:wheals|wheals]]:, something something [[artist:cecily-renns|jjr]] is a fucking asshole, thats all the context needed <i>avocado:</i> (Artist) do @@ -1155,7 +1164,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>TirantBacon:</i> (Composer) Also ~~not~~ known as Dabe's theme (no or yes????????????????????? u decide) Dabestep's melody was something I initially came up with on the piano as a concept melody, which eventually got transcribed as a proper song. It originally didn't sound this solid and full on, with it instead being more of a typical light chiptune that I didn't plan to go anywhere further with. Eventually, due to choice, I made the triangle wave louder and the drums louder still, which you can hear in the original version. - Xoro heard the song, added drums plus bitcrushing at transition points, and this is the result. I got to say, he improved the song completely, as the drums go very well with the arrangement of the overall tune. He did a great job knowing what rhythm the drums would have! The original version is on the soundtest, if that interests you. + [[artist:kusoro|Xoro]] heard the song, added drums plus bitcrushing at transition points, and this is the result. I got to say, he improved the song completely, as the drums go very well with the arrangement of the overall tune. He did a great job knowing what rhythm the drums would have! The original version is on the soundtest, if that interests you. <i>Kusoro:</i> (Composer) I heard Tirant's song and added an intro and punchier drums, that's pretty much it. @@ -1200,10 +1209,10 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/RB8gWx0jHkk Commentary: |- <i>Difarem:</i> (Composer) - This one has actually a long story; the first version was made back in the volume 2/ii days (if I recall correctly), but I wasn't really satisfied with it, nor with my later attempt to remake it for volume 7. Both these were titled EmeliaKLoVania, referencing the author of Conflict! and had some TTS at the start. Since the joke has worn out, I removed the TTS and changed the title, besides doing general improvements. + This one has actually a long story; the first version was made back in the [[album:cool-and-new-volume-2|volume 2]]/[[album:cool-and-new-volume-ii|ii]] days (if I recall correctly), but I wasn't really satisfied with it, nor with my later attempt to remake it for [[album:cool-and-new-volume-7|volume 7]]. Both these were titled EmeliaKLoVania, referencing the author of Conflict! and had some TTS at the start. Since the joke has worn out, I removed the TTS and changed the title, besides doing general improvements. <i>yazshu:</i> (Artist) - <span style="color: lightblue; font-family: comic sans ms, courier, courier new">shoutouts to simpleflips i have no commentary</span> + <span style="font-family: comic sans ms, courier, courier new">shoutouts to simpleflips i have no commentary</span> --- Track: Willful Cryptanalysis Artists: @@ -1318,7 +1327,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Ro-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-oolla Commentary: |- <i>Pipko Fanfare:</i> (Composer) - Fun fact: The lyrics to this were originally going to be "Iiiiiiiiiit's Theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Nuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut Shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack" + Fun fact: The lyrics to this were originally going to be "[[track:the-nutshack-intro|Iiiiiiiiiit's Theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Nuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut Shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack]]" <i>Wights End:</i> (Artist) Stained Glass. That's about all I have to say on the matter tbh. @@ -1361,9 +1370,9 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/tVtIsHClv9g Commentary: |- <i>cookiefonster:</i> (Composer) - One day I thought, hey I wonder how well Death by Glamour sounds combined with Conflict. This idea started as a simple high quality rip concept but it turned into this monstrosity of a song instead. Instead of transcribing the original song precisely except for melodies to replace with Conflict, I added a lot of my own doodling and interpretations of parts. Thanks to dragonChaser for helping with harmonizing that high piano part. In the later parts of the song I decided to use Tick to replace Metal Crusher which it was supposedly based on, and Snow Halation in the sax part because I don't need to explain why. I'm firmly convinced that last part is better than the original, and not even just because of DVS Sax. - I think this is one of the best songs I've ever made, but let's be real here, it's only because the original Death by Glamour is so good. Still, people liked Fighting Spirit Redux well enough so whose tastes am I to judge. - Also this song will never live up to Sbowban Glamour, sorry folks. + One day I thought, hey I wonder how well Death by Glamour sounds combined with Conflict. This idea started as a simple high quality rip concept but it turned into this monstrosity of a song instead. Instead of transcribing the original song precisely except for melodies to replace with Conflict, I added a lot of my own doodling and interpretations of parts. Thanks to [[artist:pipko-fanfare|dragonChaser]] for helping with harmonizing that high piano part. In the later parts of the song I decided to use Tick to replace [[track:metal-crusher|Metal Crusher]] which it was supposedly based on, and Snow Halation in the sax part because I don't need to explain why. I'm firmly convinced that last part is better than the original, and not even just because of DVS Sax. + I think this is one of the best songs I've ever made, but let's be real here, it's only because the original Death by Glamour is so good. Still, people liked [[track:fighting-spirit-redux|Fighting Spirit Redux]] well enough so whose tastes am I to judge. + Also this song will never live up to [[track:sbowban-glamour|Sbowban Glamour]], sorry folks. <i>yazshu:</i> (Artist) i like drawing mettaton i just put knives in his eyes also this was originally going to be a collab with me and tti but i liked the shitty wade i drew as what i wanted so much that i kept it @@ -1519,7 +1528,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/5lzQGRA_JkI Commentary: |- <i>Wheals:</i> (Composer) - Unlike Anthem, this was made from the start as a Fresh Jimmy song, at least partially with the goal to use Good Grievous Bodily Harm, it being the other canon Jimmy leitmotif. Also unlike Anthem, the musical genre is intentionally very far away from FJFB. Originally this was going to be a remix of You're So Rad (an unfinished Malcolm Brown track) called You're So Fresh, but I ended up going in (or at least aiming for) a style closer to classical orchestral music than the movie-score style of You're So Rad. There are a still one or two elements borrowed from You're So Rad, but few enough that the name had to be changed. So, I decided to maximize on the silliness of the genre shift... + Unlike [[track:fresh-jimmy-anthem|Anthem]], this was made from the start as a Fresh Jimmy song, at least partially with the goal to use Good Grievous Bodily Harm, it being the other canon Jimmy leitmotif. Also unlike Anthem, the musical genre is intentionally very far away from FJFB. Originally this was going to be a remix of You're So Rad (an unfinished Malcolm Brown track) called You're So Fresh, but I ended up going in (or at least aiming for) a style closer to classical orchestral music than the movie-score style of You're So Rad. There are a still one or two elements borrowed from You're So Rad, but few enough that the name had to be changed. So, I decided to maximize on the silliness of the genre shift... <i>yazshu:</i> (Artist) i was depressed when i drew this @@ -1577,7 +1586,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/vaZC4drhLMQ Commentary: |- <i>wiliam_:</i> (Artist) - because it's a trailer, i decided to whip up a cool 50s scifi horror film poster thing for the track art! it's probably much more dramatic and cool than the actual trailer is, though. (that's nights on fire in the bottom right corner :mmmBukkake:) + because it's a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcJpoAOPxTw">trailer</a>, i decided to whip up a cool 50s scifi horror film poster thing for the track art! it's probably much more dramatic and cool than the actual trailer is, though. (that's [[artist:nights|nights]] on fire in the bottom right corner <img src="media/misc/mmmBukkake.png" width="48">) --- Track: 'AAAAAAAAAAAAA Canon remix (not actually cannon though) cannon remix: THIT ONE IS CANON.' Artists: @@ -1648,7 +1657,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/fWG4kXtGAYA Commentary: |- <i>Wights End:</i> (Composer) - I first started work on this song after listening to the really bass heavy section in the original at 1:20 and thinking "Hey, Waters of Nazareth would be cool here" I don't care for the intro section that uses the motif from my song Misery Loves Company. It doesn't have the grandure that I wanted to achieve, but I didn't really know how to improve it. In retrospect I would probably have referenced a different song. I tried to reference Cool and New Webcomic music motifs as much as possible, but I also included a few others for shits and giggles or because a certain part of the song reminded me of it. I also tried to use iconic soundfonts and VSTs such as DVS Sax (Used in Black), Zunpets (Touhou Trumpets), Earthbound Overdriven Guitar (Used in MeGaLoVania) And two string soundfonts from Hopes and Dreams and Upward Movement. My favorite part is the mashup of Michael Bowman Remix and a U.N. Owen Was Her acapella; and my least favorite part is the transition right after that. I really like Ska music so a lot of the parts of my song are inspired by it. All and all, I'm happy with the song, though there are some things I would have done differently in retrospect. + I first started work on this song after listening to the really bass heavy section in the original at 1:20 and thinking "Hey, Waters of Nazareth would be cool here" I don't care for the intro section that uses the motif from my song Misery Loves Company. It doesn't have the grandure that I wanted to achieve, but I didn't really know how to improve it. In retrospect I would probably have referenced a different song. I tried to reference Cool and New Webcomic music motifs as much as possible, but I also included a few others for shits and giggles or because a certain part of the song reminded me of it. I also tried to use iconic soundfonts and VSTs such as DVS Sax (Used in [[track:black|Black]]), Zunpets ([[artist:touhou-project|Touhou]] Trumpets), Earthbound Overdriven Guitar (Used in MeGaLoVania) And two string soundfonts from Hopes and Dreams and [[track:upward-movement-dave-owns|Upward Movement]]. My favorite part is the mashup of Michael Bowman Remix and a U.N. Owen Was Her acapella; and my least favorite part is the transition right after that. I really like Ska music so a lot of the parts of my song are inspired by it. All and all, I'm happy with the song, though there are some things I would have done differently in retrospect. <i>Wights End:</i> (Artist) i ship it @@ -1709,8 +1718,8 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/G4rzHIRa08Q Commentary: |- <i>Cecily Renns:</i> (Composer) - this was originally for the Credits video(s) of CANH, but we went with the other two instead - it actually syncs up with the original Credits video, because i thought Ascend didnt do enough of that, but what resulted was a more of a typical JJR mess, which im very happy with + this was originally for the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UTMPTX45F8">Credits video(s)</a> of CANH, but we went with the [[track:revisit-rewind|other]] [[track:resend|two]] instead + it actually syncs up with the original Credits video, because i thought [[track:ascend|Ascend]] didnt do enough of that, but what resulted was a more of a typical [[artist:cecily-renns|JJR]] mess, which im very happy with <i>nights:</i> (Artist) i liked this track too much so i had to do something nice for it. of course by something nice i mean something anime as fuck @@ -1773,7 +1782,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/7VFFL2IXNxc Commentary: |- <i>Difarem:</i> (Composer) - This track was originally going to be my take on the CANHS credits contest. It was supposed to be the introduction for it, but I ran out of ideas for the next part so I turned it into a standalone song for volume 8. + This track was originally going to be my take on the [[album:cool-and-new-homestuck-2|CANHS]] credits contest. It was supposed to be the introduction for it, but I ran out of ideas for the next part so I turned it into a standalone song for volume 8. <i>nights:</i> (Artist) i somehow forgot that i drew this until now. the violin was the hardest thing to draw here |